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TIL of Burj Al Babas - an abandoned $200m village in Turkey consisting of hundreds of Disney-style castles.

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YwMr TIL Stephen King gave a rave review of the film “The Evil Dead”, which helped convince New Line Cinema to serve as its distributor. King called it “most ferociously original film of the year,” which attracted the interest of critics who otherwise would likely have dismissed the low-budget thriller.
kO6jg TIL you could add a billion people to the US population and it would remain the third most-populated country
R5Mv6 TIL your computer keyboard is 20,589 times dirtier than a toilet seat. The average office keyboard has 3,543,000 colony-forming units (CFU) of bacteria per square inch while your average toilet seat only has 172 CFU per square inch
WmRd TIL that we visited the moon before wheeled luggage was invented
dXv7 TIL there is a Spanish guy who got a North Korean passport and runs the whole international DPRK propaganda campaign almost on his own including the Korean Friendship Association and most probably /r/pyongyang