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TIL that Kim Jong-Il bought an entire brewery in England, shipped it piece by piece to North Korea and got it rebuilt there.

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jNb9v TIL, aside the Soviet Union, Vietnam was also responsible for the survival and rise of the Chinese Communist Party during Mao’s early days of formation and the Long March. Vietnam even sent one of their Communist party member who became a major general in the PLA.
gMgaL TIL that François-Marie Arouet derived his pen name 'Voltaire' from a Latin anagram of "The Young Arouet."
VBnO4 TIL in early 19th century Spanish overseas expansion and Russian expansion moving south by land from Alaska, met in California. Fort Ross was the southernmost Russian settlement, located in modern day Sonoma County
wGKP TIL Mao murdered 76,692,000 Chinese. This exceeds the 61,911,000 murdered by the Soviet Union 1917-1987, with Hitler far behind at 20,946,000 wiped out 1933-1945.
VE8k TIL a Japanese comedian was tricked into a real-life “Truman show” when he accepted a job which (unbeknownst to him) would lock him into an apartment, naked and cut off from everything and film him, without his knowledge. He gained possessions only thru entering hundreds of sweepstakes.