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TIL A defector used balloons to air drop thousands of copies of the film “The Interview” into North Korea.

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VB5m0 TIL The Pyrenean ibex remains the only animal to have ever been brought back from extinction and also the only one to go extinct twice
1jld TIL that the Red Ryder BB Gun from A Christmas Story is still being manufactured even though the comic it was based on was cancelled in 1963.
bAKa TIL in 1798 when Nepoleon came to Egypt the Sphinx was buried up to its neck. It wasn’t untill between 1925-1936 the french engineer Emil Baraize was successful in clearing the sand to reveal the base of the sphinx.
X0EgR TIL about "mundane science fiction," a sci-fi literary movement driven by creating plausible extensions of existing science and technology; situating stories on Earth or within the Solar System, thereby lacking the use of interstellar or intergalactic travel; and not considering contact with aliens.
oR9er TIL: The rectangular design of today’s modern tennis court began in 1875. Before that, tennis courts had an hourglass shape, wide at the ends and narrow at the net.