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TIL Female North Korean soldiers wear high-heels

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R7lQ9 TIL bee hives are kept on top of Notre Dame to increase urban biodiversity
awBJ TIL that Vasili Arkhipov was a soviet submariner who, during the Cuban missile crisis, talked his captain down from firing a nuclear torpedo at US destroyers.
lNyB TIL that a grizzly bear’s bite is estimated to be strong enough to crush a bowling ball
EgKpp TIL that almost all of Louis XIV's body was destroyed during the French Revolution. However, a piece of his mummified heart was kept by the Archbishop of York, who showed it to the Dean of Westminster, who ate it.
QJ9lM TIL there is no such thing as a healthy tan according to the American Skin Association.