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TIL: They have Smartphones in North Korea

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1nVX TIL termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
K4Q6 TIL colonists in Jamestown resorted to eating a 14 year old girl during a particularly harsh winter known as the “Starving Time.”
R7mg6 TIL that a former Canadian senator once read the entirety of a book he authored during a filibuster, allegedly to have it translated for free by the official parliament translator
RwX7 TIL a list was compiled of actors with the most on-screen kills, which included (understandably) Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, and Clint Eastwood, but also at #7, beating out Jet Li, is Nicolas Cage with 204 on-screen kills.
DkAj Today I learned that the title for Egyptian proctologists literally translates to “shepherd of the anus.”