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TIL North Korean state media admitted that the founder Kim Il Sung did not have the ability to teleport.

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D5Aj TIL that it took George Eastman, the inventor of Kodak film, four years to come up with a name for his product. His mother helped him, and had a few rules for what he wanted: something short, something impossible to mispronounce, something unique, and something that included his favorite letter, K.
ne4Ro TIL the inventor of the commercial airliner also started a cult, based in part around the doctrine that the Earth sucks nutrients from outer space into itself via a hole at the North Pole and subsequently expels them from a huge anus at the South Pole.
6RjZ TIL that even though he initially refused it, George Washington’s salary as President ($25,000) equaled 2% of the national budget
XEKyj TIL that the US has only ever lost 5 Olympic Basketball games, with a win rate of 96.5 percent.
kJpbe TIL the world's longest noodle is 3.084 km (1.916 miles) long