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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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0o5 TIL the very first US Congress passed, and George Washington signed into law, a health insurance mandate.
yypM TIL that the German word for “jack of all trades” (Eierlegende-wollmilchsau) literally means egg-laying-wool-milk-pig thereby describing the perfect animal that provides wool, milk and, finally, bacon.
7PBx TIL a ton of money is worth $908,000 (weighing only dollar bills)
v1m9K TIL that Rosemary Kennedy - little sister to JFK - developed violent moodswings at 23. Their father secretly took Rosemary to the notorious surgeon Walter Freeman, who used an ice pick to disconnect her frontal lobes. The lobotomy disabled her & she spent the rest of her life in an institution.
RGKa TIL: The presidential limousines in the last decade have their own ecosystem completely sealed from the outside in case of weapon, chemical attacks. They use heavy duty truck frames and use a diesel engine to lug 20k lbs. of steel and hidden weaponry. Two pints of president’s blood is also on hand.