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TIL that in 1997, a UNICEF delegation determined that North Korean hospitals did not even have thermometers or other basic medical equipment.

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okOo TIL Eric Schimdt had the following to say on what Google can do: “One day we had a conversation where we figured we could just try and predict the stock market… and then we decided it was illegal. So we stopped doing that.”
GYy9Q TIL about Ann Hodges, the only person to have been struck by a meteorite
EErw TIL when she was the First Lady, Barbara Bush called the Simpsons “the dumbest thing I had ever seen”. She received letter from Marge Simpson which moved her so much, she wrote back apologizing.
4Xgp5 Over 50 spacecraft (19 landers and 6 rovers have visited the lunar surface) have successfully launched from Earth to fly past, orbit, impact and land on the Moon.
6E4RQ TIL Rosemary Kennedy was probably never mentally ill at all. Her lobotomy was most likely as a result of the rigid expectations placed on her.