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TIL the parody Twitter account DPRK_News has been quoted by the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek, and Fox News as if speaking for the real North Korean state news agency.

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oBjL7 TIL that one Canadian tank, nicknamed "Bomb," never missed a day of service from when it landed in Normandy on D-Day until the surrender of Germany, firing over 6,000 rounds and taking two enemy hits across France, Belgium, and the Netherlands
xV1lw TIL that Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle attended a dinner party held by an editor looking for content. They each promised to contribute to his magazine. The results of that evening? The Picture of Dorian Gray and the second, franchise-cementing Sherlock Holmes novel The Sign of Four.
5YBrr TIL that in 1876, James Garfield, future 20th President of the United States, developed a proof of the Pythagorean Theorem that was published in New-England Journal of Education.
jN71X TIL That in February of 2020, the state of Nevada experienced an all time low unemployment rate of 3.6%, which was shortly followed by an all time high in April of 2020, at 30.1%. Nevada currently has the highest unemployment rate in the United States.
j65Rn TIL about Dr. Benjamin Rush who provided the Corps of Discovery with 600 "Dr. Rush's Bilious Pills," powerful laxatives containing 50% mercury, colloquially called "thunderclappers." The high mercury content provided a tracer that has allowed the Corps' campsites to be identified via soil testing.