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TIL that North Korea has a VHS copy of Space Jam enshrined in a musuem

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JY5mk TIL in the days following the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Ronald Reagan called the killing "a great tragedy that began when we began compromising with law and order and people started choosing which laws they'd break."
VMn5k TIL that banks have therapists known as “wealth psychologist”. They help ultra-wealthy clients who are unable to mentally cope with their immense wealth.
gMe87 TIL that Pecorino Cheese is sheep cheese—Pecorino in Italian means "ovine" or "of sheep"
E1Wbp TIL That in 1917, 7 years after Mark Twain's death, two spiritualist mediums claimed that Twain’s ghost had dictated them a new novel via Ouija Board. The novel was published, received very poor reviews and the book publisher was prosecuted by the Twain estate.
x9Gg TIL: Liberia was a founding member of the UN and a successful African nation…until 1980 when a USA-backed coup assassinated the President, and executed the entire government. Liberia collapsed into a civil war and never recovered.