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TIL that Kim Jong Il ordered the kidnap of South Korean filmmaker Shin Sang-ok and his wife to make movies for North Korea. They gained Kim’s trust and allowed them to travel to Vienna, where they seeked asylum to US Embassy. Feared about their credibility, they secretly taped Kim’s voice prior.

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BxVe TIL when Galileo presented his version of the telescope to the City of Venice in 1609, he did so at least partially because he needed the money to help support several illegitimate children.
WGK8 TIL Qaddafi Warned France “If I Go Down, You Will Be Flooded With Millions Of Blacks”
J1jMk TIL In 1958, pilots Robert Timm and Jim Cook flew a Cessna 172 for 66 days straight without landing by refueling from a moving truck
LkZAV TIL of the Great bison belt. A tract of grassland that ran from Alaska to the Gulf of Mexico around 9000 BCE, which allowed the bison to outlive other Ice Age animals and let the animal become the staple food of the Plains Paleo-Indians
9YgNm TIL the film SpaceCamp, about children accidentally being launched into orbit on board the Space Shuttle, became known as a “marketing nightmare” after the Challenger Disaster happened just 5 months before its release.