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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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ZYjB TIL of a man who survived the fire and sinking of a ship in 1871, leaving him emotionally scarred. 41 years later, he was finally able to overcome his fears and nightmares, deciding to sail again… only to die in the sinking of that new ship: The Titanic.
mxlAM TIL of a French man who despite having most of his brain eroded, lives a relatively normal, healthy life as a civil servant married with two children
X0kwD TIL there that there is a Township in Ontario which has 61 letters, as it consists of the names of every village and hamlet in its borders. Most Ontario Townships and forced-amalgamated rural towns simply use the name of one of the communities as the official legal name.
YpGmA TIL about Djordje Mihailovic, a keeper of Serbian Military Cemetery at Zeitenlik, in Thessaloniki. Like his grandfather and father before him, for more than half a century he welcomes the descendants of Serbian soldiers who died in Salonika front during the WW1. He is the last of his line.
kObdd TiL about the "World Passport" scam which has been running since 1954 and is still running today.