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TIL that North Korea hijacked a plane in 1967 and still hasn’t returned the passengers.

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J1OmQ TIL: That there's a specie of snakes that resemble giant worms called Amphisbaenia.
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rmPy TIL that in Chernobyl they planted hemp to remove toxins from the soil in a process that’s called “phytoremediation”
rRJ04 TIL the American Humane Association Film Unit (responsible for "No Animals Were Harmed" message in films) formed in 1940 due to outrage about a horse that was thrown off a cliff and drowned for the 1939 film Jesse James. Before then trip wires were used to film horses falling over often killing them
R7JB9 TIL Mad Magazine received a notice of legal action in 1980 from Lucasfilm over its parody of The Empire Strikes Back. Mad sent back a letter they had on file from George Lucas saying how much he loved the parody and the lawyers were never heard from again.