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TIL that every living former President of the South Korea has served, or is currently serving, a prison sentence.

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Vm10 TIL the CDC did a study and found that you could track food poisoning outbreaks simply by searching for words like “sick,” “vomit,” “diarrhea” or “food poisoning” in Yelp reviews
5YO8 TIL Patsy Cline was nearly killed in two separate accidents, and subsequently told her friends to take care of her children because she felt that a third and final one was on the way. She died in a plane crash one week later.
0WB5 TIL : While filming Robocop (1987), producers, in lieu of paying a rental fee to owners of the Pittsburgh steel mill featured in the film, donated $10,000 to a local Pittsburgh food bank
VG9Z TIL that in March 2007, Switzerland accidentally invaded Liechtenstein with a 170-person infantry unit. Liechtenstein had abolished its military in 1868.
ANZDa TIL there was once a project to build a canal across Florida to shorten the route between the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. It was about half completed when President Nixon cancelled it for environmental reasons.