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TIL in 2011, North Korea donated $500,000 to Japan after an earthquake struck the nation.

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LQpKr TIL that the woman in the epic and wonderful music video "The Box" (1996) by Orbital , is played by none other than the fantastic, the wonderful and supremely talented Tilda Swinton.
O611 TIL that the Pingu gibberish is actually a language used by clowns and mimes since the 16th century
n5nP TIL There is an inn on the Canadian American border that encourages guests to spot illegal trespassers by supplying them with night vision goggles
LQ6Km TIL that in Goiânia, Brazil, in 1987 a radiotherapy device was stolen from an abandoned hospital. The people who found it broke it open, exposing the 93 g of radioactive caesium chloride and leading to the contamination of 250 people, 20 of whom experienced radiation sickness and 4 of whom died
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