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TIL it has been estimated that 40-50% of adults in North Korea are addicted to meth.

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wLPXW TIL that in 1924, two men named Leopold and Loeb tried to commit the "perfect crime" and show their intellectual superiority by killing a 14 year old boy and not getting caught. They were caught in less than two weeks.
8lOb TIL the difference between a “gift” and a “present” is that a present must be “presented.”
mRoY TIL that in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, the name of Uncle Phil’s law firm is “Firth, Wynn and Meyer” as a reference to the band Earth, Wind, and Fire.
RY6w TIL Louis X of France died before his son was born so his son John became King on his birth, and is the only French King to have done so. He only lived for 5 days and is known as ‘the Posthumous’
VvO4 TIL Stetson Kennedy inflitrated the KKK, learned their rituals and codewords,and provided these to the writers of the Superman program, which produced 16 episodes in which Superman fought the Klan, leading to a steep drop in recruitment.