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TIL the famine in North Korea has been so bad in recent years, that people have been executed for selling human flesh

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ZplwY TIL that 17 million telegrams are still sent every year. By comparison, over 200 billion e-mails are sent every day. They are most commonly sent to meet certain legal requirements or to express congratulations or condolences.
KYGA9 TIL olympic sailor Francisco Gonzalez killed 44 people on a plane by shooting both the pilots
Z86PG TIL: Beethoven loved his coffee so much that he had his own recipe. It consisted of 60 beans. Not 59, not 61, but precisely 60. He would drop them into a cup separately and sometimes do a second recount. He also had a special apparatus for preparing it.
9YOwD TIL that elephants have prehensile penises, meaning that they can use them to pick things up and perform other various tasks.
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