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TIL that North Korea had a show called “Let’s trim our hair in accordance with the socialist lifestyle”

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ErD0 TIL that over the last 35 years, a portion of the scientific community involved in researching domestic violence has been actively concealing and misrepresenting the evidence for “Gender Symmetry”: the fact that women and men perpetrate partner violence at comparable rates [PDF]
eOJg TIL: The President of Belarus introduced a new law in 2014 that prohibits collective farm workers from leaving their jobs willingly. He later admitted that the law is very much like medieval serfdom.
oRWMY TIL that demand for global water will exceed supply by 40% by 2030, and that 11 major cities will be hit the hardest.
grv6A TIL that you're never more than 115 miles from a Mcdonald's Restaurant in the continental U.S.
Y7aMr TIL Runaway Train by Soul Asylum actually found 21 of the 36 missing kids mentioned in the song.