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TIL That the term “Third World Country” does not mean poor, it refers to a country which was not aligned with either America/First World or Soviet/Second World during the Cold War.

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px1Z TIL in 1987, North Korea brought down a South Korean jet on its way to Seoul from Baghdad. NK’s agent was posing as a Japanese national, having been taught Japanese language and customs for 3 years by a Japanese woman who was abducted from her home in Northern Japan
69WeY TIL that Kansas City is not situated in the state of Kansas but in Missouri.
KOk5J TIL how the severing the Corpus Callosum can change the way the halves of the brain communicate.
MoVa TIL that all cast members who work for Disney are given specialist training in signing their characters autograph so that if you went now, and again in ten years time, Mickeys autograph will always be the same no matter who is playing him at the time.
xnPg TIL of “Yasuke” the first recorded foreign born samurai in Japan from the 16th century. He was a black man from Mozambique and would have been extremely tall at the time. It was reported he had the strength of 10 men.