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TIL there's a North Korean international restaurant chain named "Pyongyang"

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YYwP TIL there have been over 2,000 nuclear bombs dropped on the world since 1945.
Kdp9 TIL a man once named his 2 sons Winner and Loser. Loser was good at school and became a detective. Winner ended up homeless and in and out of jail.
awNQ0 TIL that for the last 100 years, Minnesota's been refusing requests from Virginia to return a captured Confederate Battle flag; in 2000 Gov. Jesse Ventura responded “Why? We won. ... We took it. That makes it our heritage.”
ZN5o TIL “Killing Season” is a British medical term used to describe the time around August, when the newly qualified doctors join the National Health Service.
p8pRN TIL a German company made orchestral instruments from Perspex in the 1930s. The string instruments were too quiet for orchestras, but the flutes and clarinets were just as good as their metal or wooden equivalents.