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TIL In North Korea it is the year 103, not 2014. This is because their calendar is based around the birth of Kim Il-Sung

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Lk91v TIL: About "violent grief response" A phenomenon where family members attack doctors or hospital staff immediately after being informed of a loved one's death
b9Mn7 TIL that only seven states have banned mandatory microchipping of humans
BbND TIL that someone named their twins Winner and Loser. Winner went on to become a criminal, and Loser became a detective.
R57d1 TIL that while postboxes in England, N. Ireland and Wales are engraved with "EIIR" -the royal cipher of Queen Elizabeth II, those in Scotland bear only a Crown; as there was no Elizabeth I of Scotland. The controversial use of "EIIR" on Scottish postboxes lead to the "Pillar Box War" in the 1950s.
9YLAX TIL That the Black Death was Not Called Black Death in Medieval Times, But people back then called it "The Great Pestilence", "Great Mortality" or even in some cases in England The "Blue Sickness"!!