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TIL Kim Jong-Il once rounded up all the short people in Pyongyang and sent them away to uninhabited islands “to end their ‘substandard’ genes from repeating in a new generation”.

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W7ed9 TIL of the town Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, Québec. The the only town in the world with two exclamation points in its name.
lQGG TIL that the Kingdom of Hawaii declared itself neutral during the American Civil War. Despite that decree, many native Hawaiians enlisted anyway.
b9L49 TIL that Admiral Lord Nelson, famous for his victory (and death) at the Battle of Trafalgar, attempted to hunt a polar bear in the Arctic at the age of 14. His musket misfired and he had to fight the now angry bear with the musket butt until a rift in the ice separated them.
x61ZB TIL about the confidence woman Sarah Wilson, who was convicted in England and sentenced to transportation and slavery in the American colonies; where she escaped and pretended to be the sister to the Queen of England, fooling many of the southern elite.
Z8pO4 TIL that jellyfish, despite having no brain, still need to sleep