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TIL about the "Moranbong band", the first all-girls DPRK-Pop band of North Korea, formed by the state, as a response to the success of South Korean music all over the world.

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yVX8a TIL The beautiful sand beaches of the Maldives are made out of up to 85% poo by the Parrot fish. One Parrot fish alone can create up to 500kg of sand per year!
l79bN TIL there is a "significant relationship" between the length of a male narwhal's tusk and the size of its testes
Wknnd TIL Apollo astronauts did not have a space toilet. They had a plastic bag with an adhesive rim which they stuck to themselves. After relieving themselves, they had to add disinfectant to the bag and knead it by hand until thoroughly mixed.
78pOL TIL, Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from the former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959.
BrAVy TIL during France's 100-year rule over Haiti, one million people were either worked to death or starved.