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TIL Chinese tourists in North Korea has been criticized for throwing sweets at North Korean children ‘like they’re feeding ducks’

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1aWGr TIL despite the title of the 1990 novel and 1993 movie "Jurassic Park", most of the dinosaurs depicted in these sources were from the Cretaceous period, not Jurassic.
a8J6y TIL that in 1807 during a celebratory hunt, Napoleon Bonaparte was swarmed by an army of domesticated bunnies.
5VelD TIL In the United States over 24 billion eggs are broken per year at egg breaking facilities. Additionally egg membranes are high in collagen and used in dietary supplements.
JYxpl TIL - Mozart has a pet starling (bird) which could sing part of his piano concerto in G Major. He had bought it from a shop after hearing it sing a phrase from a work he wrote six weeks previously, which had not yet been performed in public
VBQjQ TIL that most of the seats in Coors Field Baseball stadium at Denver, Colorado are dark green in color, the seats in the 20th row of the upper deck are purple to mark the elevation of one mile above sea level.