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TIL North Korea has its own version of the Ten Commandments called The Ten Principles for the Establishment of a Monolithic Ideological System which consists of total and complete devotion to Kim Il-Sung

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Wk8mo TIL: When public health officials first began banning the dumping of feces in the street, they were still working under miasma theory, that bad smells were what caused diseases like cholera. The germ theory of disease wasn’t developed until 1880.
9YEY6 TIL 69 year ago on April 20th, Danny DeVito's favorite movie "Miracle in Milan" by Vittorio De Sica, was awarded with the Grand Prize at the Cannes Festival.
mxgM TIL that BBC staff openly smoked marijuana at the corporation’s headquarters during the 1960s and 70s and Play School presenters even went on-air stoned.
GYKRE TIL that the decay of potassium in a typical banana will emit a positron (anti-matter equivalent of an electron) every 75 minutes or so
j6ngX TIL that being "smooth brained" is an actual disorder called Lissencephaly, it's rare and results in a lot of problems, like seizures, severe mental/physical disabilities, and a much lower life expectancy, treatments have gotten better though