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

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BA5e TIL that the man Dick Cheney shot in 2006 still has 30 birdshot pellets stuck inside him, which has led to heart issues and a change in voice.
J1d4l TIL Denmark fitted contraceptive coils in half the female population of Greenland (without informing them of what their purpose was or receiving consent) to reduce birth rates in the 60s and 70s. Most of those affected were children.
n1NY TIL Stranger Things was allegedly based on Project Montauk, a supposed secret government program involving the kidnapping of children for use in mind control experiments.
5VYeP TIL that hummingbirds are one of the few bird species that “pees”
d8VO7 TIL that Bruce Springsteen's 1980 hit "Hungry Heart" was originally written for the Ramones. He had written it in five minutes after seeing one of their concerts, and only recorded it himself after the band turned it down