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TIL that North Korea exports human hair to skirt the impacts of sanctions

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VMKVk TIL a sloth can hold its breath for up to 40 minutes. 4 times longer than a dolphin. They sleep for 15 hours a day and internal organs like the heart, spleen and liver are arranged to accommodate living upside down.The grip of a sloth is so strong when they die they sometimes remain hanging on trees
5Yg6k TIL Bambi is listed in the Top 25 Horror Movies of all Time by Time magazine. Bambi, Time states, "has a primal shock that still haunts oldsters who saw it 40, 50, 65 years ago.”
wLZvE TIL that in 1999, 40 million people suddenly lost power in the Philippines, igniting fears of a possible military coup, only to find out that the cooling pipes of one power grid had sucked up 50 dump truck’s worth of jellyfish which caused the outage.
ENO7 TIL that not only did the Mormon church not oppose the Broadway musical “The Book of Mormon”, they used the extra attention to promote their religion and even took out ad-space in the playbill
XER4j TIL that in 1777 the Sultanate of Morocco was the first county to recognize the United States as an independent nation with a treaty of peace and friendship.