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TIL that North Koreans are especially proud of Kim Jong Il for his "inventions". One of them is the Gogigyeopbbang or double breaded meat, which is essentially a hamburger.

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9jWM TIL: The first use of the phrase “May the Fourth be with you” was by a Danish political party which placed a congratulatory advertisement in The London Evening News when Margaret Thatcher took office as Prime Minister on May 4th 1979, “May the Fourth Be with You, Maggie. Congratulations.”
7reDx TIL A WW2 pigeon named Mary of Exeter survived an assassination attempt by a German warhawk, was shot, hit with shrapnel, and survived a bombing of her loft while delivering messages across the English Channel to France.
ybdw TIL that the German word, Schnapsidee (liquor-idea) is a term for a plan one hatches when drunk, or a plan so stupid that you think it must have come from a drunken mind
4wxb TIL that in World of Warcraft, if you are drunk in-game, levels of enemies appear lower to the drunk player than they actually are, leading intoxicated players to unsuspecting deaths
JY1B TIL that Pauley Perrette, the actress who plays Abby on NCIS, is actually 43 YEARS OLD. And, she has a Masters Degree in Criminology