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TIL All North Koreans are considered citizens of South Korea by South Korea's government

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xV11b TIL American football is based on “rugby football” and soccer is based on “association football”. Both of them are called “football” because they were played on foot as opposed to horseback.
8ao6G TIL Kazakhstan is the world’s top uranium producer, accounting for around 40% of global supplies estimated at 50,000 tonnes a year
6EvyX TIL about 'convict leasing' system in which Southern states leased prisoners to private railways, mines, and large plantations, basically 'slavery by another name'
nxM9 TIL in 1911 British Antarctic explorer George Murray Levick observed the sexual habits of an Adélie Penguin rookery. The habits included necrophilia, coercion and homosexuality. The report was deemed too indecent at the time and was only published in 2012.
1xM8 TIL the real life Bernie Tiede (portrayed by Jack Black in the movie “Bernie”), who was given a life sentence for murdering his elderly companion, was released from prison this year and will be living with the director of the movie.