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TIL the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating North and South Korea has become a unintentional nature preserve. Several rare and endangered species, including the Amur leopard and Siberian tiger have been spotted there.

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8Vb8 TIL That an unidentified man was found on a beach in South Australia 68 years ago. He has never been identified, in his pocket was the words “Tamam Shud” torn from a book meaning “finished” or “ended”. There are theories he was a Cold War spy due to the circumstances of his death.
8KP8 TIL Your reality is 15 seconds in the making: When you really focus your attention on something, you’re said to be “in the present moment.” But research suggests that the “present moment” is actually a chunk of the recent past, and it’s about 15 seconds long.
XEwOP TIL Christopher Lee was in involved in numerous metal albums for the last ten years of his life
Yp8j7 TIL the world record for stacking 10 toilet paper rolls with one hand is 5.45 seconds.
mxK1p TIL: Bombing Nagasaki and Hiroshima was the less deadly of the 2 options America considered to end the war: Alt was to invade Japan, costing millions of both American and Japanese lives, instead of over 200k Japanese lives lose from the bombs.