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TIL budae-jiggae (Korean Army Stew) and tteokbokki are banned in North Korea for being South Korean inventions

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yQvXV TIL Japan proposed an amendment to the Treaty of Versailles that outlawed all racial discrimination. Despite receiving a majority vote for it to be added to the treaty Woodrow Wilson personally vetoed the measure and as a comprise let Japan claim a number of islands in the Pacific.
6wX7 TIL of Ponso, a roughly 40-year-old chimp, who was dumped on an abandoned island off the Ivory Coast more than 30 years ago after being used for medical testing. He relies on the kindness of a nearby villager, Germain, who’s dropped off bananas and bread for him ever since he was left to die
XEgZr TIL Billie Eilish's "Bad Guy" uses the Sydney (Australia) Crosswalk Alert in its chorus
EgP47 TIL there's a fishing line strung between electrical poles that travels continuously around the entire perimeter of manhattan
xaKg TIL NASA told Hillary Clinton she couldn’t become an astronaut because she’s a girl.