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TIL since 2002, there's been a German themed village housing German ex-pats and Korean spouses in South Korea which even hosts annual Oktoberfests

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Zp5Ko TIL: Giraffes no make sound much, they mostly quiet. They have long necks to reach tree leafs. Baby giraffes born and drop like 6 feets to ground, but they ok. Giraffes sleep very little, like 30 min in day.
loxwG TIL that eating a live Slug could cause paralysis neck down, coma, or even death. To eat one safely, it must be adequately cooked to minimize the risk of dying from ingesting the parasites it hosts.
QNn0a TIL about Richard Russell, a ground service agent who hijacked an empty Horizon Air plane in 2018. He flew it for over an hour, performing stunts before crashing on an island and ending his life.
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yQ4re TIL that Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel prize winning philosopher, suffered a bad trip after using Mescaline, in which he thought he was menaced by sea creatures. For years following this, he consistently believed that he was being followed by lobsters.