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TIL that any North Koreans that escape to South Korea are automatically granted citizenship upon arrival

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gMpLL TIL The Wolf of Wall Street was almost wholly produced with money embezzled from Malaysia's Development Fund (their former prime minister is serving jail time but the main embezzler got away)
OEyg TIL it is illegal for 2 unmarried of opposite sex to live together in Florida. And Mississippi and Michigan too.
gMQWb TIL the highest-grossing non-sequel film of 1992 was Sister Act, starring Whoopi Goldberg. Plot: A lounge singer is forced to join a convent after being placed in a witness protection program.
oRn9o TIL the Buffalo Creek disaster killed 125 people and left 4,000 people homeless when a Pittston Coal Company mine runoff dam broke in West Virginia.
KOD44 TIL the house from 'The Goonies' gets so many fan visits (around 1200 per day), the owner has tried to stop them coming by covering the house in a blue tarp.