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TIL that Bob Jones University in South Carolina banned interracial dating until the year 2000

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m1NAE TIL North Korea is obsessed with Choco Pies from S Korea. There's a black market for them, and factories once used them to pay worker bonuses. In 2014, S Korean activists sent 10K pies to NK with helium balloons. After an injured NK defector crossed the DMZ in 2017, he was given a lifetime supply.
YmNG TIL that a guy died in 2012 after being hit by two cars. He had apparently been trying to create a bigfoot hoax by wearing a ghillie suit and walking on a highway.
EgWx TIL The Catholic Church believed the first people to use Arabic Numerals were practicing magic and sentenced them to life in prison
oRoyL TIL that the inventor of the Pringles can is now buried in one.
9YdlQ TIL that in many places in the world, graves are not owned, they are rented, and if the rent isn't paid after you're dead, your body is evicted into a mass grave.