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TIL North Korean Leader Kim Jong-il was a huge movie buff owning a collection of more than 20,000 video tapes and DVDs. They included James Bond, Friday the 13th, Rambo, and Godzilla. He authored a book on Film Making in 1973 and even directed a film in 2006.

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JYXk1 TIL about The Massacre of Black Wall Street.
9wABm TIL gut bacteria and the nervous system communicate with neurotransmitters
p89EN TIL Baby elephants usually suck their own trunks to calm themselves. That is almost similar to human babies who also tend to suck their own thumbs.
Ooe07 TIL in 1880 a guy built a 200ft 14 storey tower made out of concrete with no steel reinforcement. It’s still standing today, 140 years later, and is the tallest non-reinforced concrete structure in the world. It was designed as his mausoleum.
OG6Ea TIL Tim Derk invented the T-Shirt Cannon in the mid 1990s. It was inspired by "spud launchers" during wartime, and quickly caught on with sports team mascots.