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b9Q64 TIL Held every two years, the Pyongyang International Film Festival offers North Koreans their only chance to see foreign films on the big screen. Those who don't have the means to go to the theatre tune into the Mansudae TV channel, which shows mostly Chinese and Eastern European films on weekends
QwXE TIL that India’s Mars mission cost less than the movie “Gravity.”
dbJr TIL of Ossip Bernstein, a famous chess grandmaster, who was sentenced to death by the Bolsheviks in 1918. While he was facing the firing squad, a russian officer that heard his name offered him the chance to prove his identity in a game of chess. He beat the officer and was released.
MeprA TIL about Cockaigne, an imaginary place of "extreme luxury" in medieval myth where physical comforts and pleasures are always immediately at hand.
wL0RW TIL about the French phrase “tirer les vers du nez” which literally translates as “to pull the worms from somebody’s nose” but means to make someone tell a secret/the truth. It became a popular phrase after the rise of nasal parasites in the 15th century.