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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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YavZ TIL it is literally ILLEGAL to sag in Grambling, LA; caught sagging could result in 15 days in jail, 150$ fine, and community service.
yQKJ TIL Elvis Presley recorded over 600 songs during his lifetime, but he didn’t write any of them.
QJrlk TIL that Farming Simulator has a competitive scene.
ev4J TIL that Robert Oppenheimer, during the detonation of the trinty bomb (the first atom bomb), recalled that besides initial laughs and cries, most scientists were silent. Oppenheimer later recalled thinking of a line from Hindu scripture that read, “Now I become Death, the destroyer of worlds”
rMA4 TIL After a doctor named Richard Barista was slapped with divorce papers from his wife, he sued her for the return of the kidney he gave her 8 years ago. He requested her to pay $1.5 million for the organ he donated and insisted his cash-for-kidney claim was a direct result of his wife’s behaviour