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TIL One of North Korea’s largest exports is giant statues of foreign dictators.

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WknBo TIL that Fort Ross, built on the coast of California just north of San Francisco, was the southernmost Russian settlement in colonial North America from 1812 to 1841.
VMBLG Do not be fooled by its adorable name—the cookiecutter shark attacks by suctioning its lips to the flesh of its victims, spins, and ejects a cylindrical plug of flesh from its prey!
Me7aA TIL that when you lose 10 kg of fat, 8.4 kg is exhaled as CO2 and 1.6 kg is excreted as water. Most of the weight you lose exits your body through your lungs.
WkjPN TIL Dirk Obbink got a MacArthur genius grant for reassembling papyrus scrolls carbonized by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79, but then got fired from Oxford Uni for allegedly fraudulently selling biblical papyri belonging to the Egypt Exploration Society as his own for millions of dollars.
OG6wY TIL that Pat Morita had a completely different voice then Mr. Miyagi!