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Today I learned pizza isn't Italian

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p8nDp TIL in 2007, a North Korean cargo vessel was captured by Somali pirates. Its distress signal was responded to by a nearby US destroyer, which provided medical assistance to injured NK sailors who were able to retake the vessel. It led to an unprecedented statement of gratitude by North Korean media.
R7kZ1 TIL that 'Essa Coca é Fanta' is a slur in Brazil and means "this Coke is Fanta" and has been used to make fun of Homosexuals.In 2017 Coca-Cola Brazil came out in support of the LGBTQ community and filled all its common areas and break room refrigerators with Coke cans actually filled with Fanta
aVmy TIL welders are not allowed to get MRIs because of the possibility of microscopic metal fragments lodged within their body
GAAPG TIL Norway have polar nights when the sun never rises for several months
b6Oap TIL it is dangerous to blow air into a pregnant women's vagina. The increased air pressure can pass beneath the fetal membranes and into the circulation causing a venous air embolism that can kill within minutes.