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TIL that North-Korea still has not payed Sweden for the 600 volvos they bought in 1971

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rEJ1 TIL American poet and activist Alice Dunbar Nelson was rejected by both the white and the black society because white people found she was “too black” and black people found she was “too white”.
woEaM TIL Waffle House cooks use a code written in food to remember an order that was yelled in.
ADDaa TIL when researchers from the University of Texas instructed people to spend a number of dollars a week either on experiences or on material goods, the first group felt happier afterwards. The reason is that the goods remain the same, so we stop noticing them, but experiences bring more variety.
jNpjM TIL of Dorothy Thompson, an American journalist working in Europe in the 1930's. She was granted an interview with Adolf Hitler in 1931, after which she referred to him as "... insecure—the very prototype of the Little Man." She eventually became the first American journalist expelled from Germany
A1Od TIL that Tuvalu could finally afford the $100,000 it cost to join the United Nations after it received its first quarterly $1 million payment for leasing out the valuable .tv internet domain.