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TIL North Korea owns a restaurant chain and operates restaurants outside of North Korea.

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WkYx9 TIL:Toast falling off a plate lands butter-side down almost 2/3 of the time.It’s nothing to do with one side being buttered, its that as the toast goes over the edge of the plate, it starts to rotate, but the spin-rate is too slow to bring the butter-side up again by the time it hits the floor
VMrRp TIL: Tourists at Yala National Park on Sri Lanka's SouthWest coast who fell victim to the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami were unable to spot any wildlife on safari because the animals had sensed the tremor vibrations 4 days earlier and fled to higher ground
69QJ7 TIL after the first time Ginevra King rejected F. Scott Fitzgerald, he dropped out of Princeton and enlisted in the army in order to commit suicide-by-combat on the Western front. He hastily wrote and submitted his first book, which launched his career, and was obsessed with her over his entire life
1aVyr TIL Michael Humphreys, the man who played the role of the young Forrest Gump, joined the US Army in 2004 and has completed an 18-month deployment in Iraq. While in the Army, he was given the nickname "Gump" by his fellow soldiers.
Wk9Xo TIL that under anti-discrimination laws, bartenders cannot legally refuse serving alcohol to pregnant women