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TIL If you’re an American traveling in North Korea, you call up the Swedish Embassy if in any type of danger.

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Nar1 TIL a physical education teacher in Texas wore the exact same disco-era polyester shirt and coffee-colored sweater vest in his school picture for 40 years in a row, until his retirement in 2013.
p8PxG TIL some Spiders pretend to be Ants, waving their front two legs like antennae, and copying ant zig-zag locomotive behavior in order to trick would-be predators like birds and spider-wasps into thinking they're an unpalatable or aggressive ant.
JYyOk TIL Betty Robinson, an Olympic runner, was involved in a plane crash in 1931 and was wrongly pronounced dead upon first being discovered. She spend 7 months in a coma and it took her 2 years to learn to walk normally again. In 1936, she returned to the US olympic team and won gold in the relay.
OEWg TIL “Reductio ad Hitlerum” is a term for trying to derail an argument by comparing it to Hitler’s or the nazi party’s views.
ne9g7 TIL there was a Lego MMO, Lego Universe, that was shut down after 2 years because the Devs couldn’t stop players from building penises all over the landscape.