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TIL North Korea exported 1,680 tonnes – or about 135 double decker buses worth – of false eyelashes, beards and wigs

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oBk87 TIL An American woman from California named Carla de Vries kissed Hitler at the Berlin Olympics in 1936
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d8mlQ TIL "A fake U.S. Embassy operated in Ghana for about a decade, issuing false visas and other documents until it was discovered in 2016."
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waBM TIL advocating removal of the monarchy in the UK is officially punishable by life imprisonment.