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TIL in 2014, South Korean Christians put up a Christmas tree visible from the North Korean Border. North Korea responded by calling it a “tool for psychological warfare” and threatened to bomb it.

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9DaD TIL after being in a coma for nearly 8 years, Gary Dockery awoke suddenly and spent the day catching up with family. By the next day he could no longer speak, and he soon slipped back into the coma and never woke up again.
wL8M TIL superhero is a trademark co-owned by DC and Marvel Comics, and no one else is permitted to use it on the cover of any comic book or magazine.
R7K8a TIL Candle in the Wind is about Marilyn Monroe.
JYJo4 TIL that “verklempt” is not a Yiddish word. It just sounds a lot like the Yiddish word that means the same thing - “farklempt”
mx4Yy TIL that when actor Liam Neesons wife, Natasha Richardson, died in 2009 he donated her organs. Her heart, kidneys, and liver are keeping three people alive.