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TIL that watching or distributing pornography in North Korea can be punishable by death.

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R7Nj TIL- The Chocolate River in Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory was made from real chocolate, water and cream and it actually spoiled quickly and left a foul smell
6xo7 TIL that without bats there would be no tequila. It’s made from the agave plant, which is pollinated by bats.
W9ON TIL Freckles, a goat in Utah, was implanted with spider genes as an embryo to produce spider silk protiens in her milk which is used to make “biosteel,” a material stronger than kevlar.
R74Bw TIL the movie Stuart Little had a long-lost Hungarian painting hanging in the background. The masterpiece was lost before WWII, and was discovered in 2009 when an art historian watched Stuart Little with his daughter. The film's set designer had found the painting at an antiques shop in California.
E1mWd TIL the line "They call me Mr. Pig" in the Lion King is a reference to the 1967 film, In the Heat of the Night