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TIL the Rotary Club is a specific humanitarian organization - not a club where people talk about their old fashioned phones

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Rr5j TIL A suicidal painter was saved from death 3 times by the same “mysterious” monk. Nobody knew who the monk was; the painter didn’t even know the monk’s name.
4PQX TIL the Justice League’s Martian Manhunter was once addicted to cookies and hulked out when deprived of them.
6Ekrm TIL that there are elections in North Korea, on election day, everyone aged 17 and up is legally obliged to show up to vote. Once it is your turn to vote, you are given a ballot paper with just one name on it, nothing to fill in or cross out, you just take the paper and stick in a ballot box.
ElO0 TIL that an English POW in WWI was granted permission to visit his dying mother and voluntarily returned a week later.
ZpYW4 TIL the composer for the theme song of “the Rugrats” is Mark Mothersbaugh, cofounder of Devo.