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TIL that in 1952 North Korea once held an “Inter Camp Olympics” for P.O.Ws as a publicity stunt, with some 500 prisoners taking part in events like American Football and Basketball.

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4wXa TIL that after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 only the reactor No. 4 was nonoperational. The other 3 reactors continued to operate. Only in 2000 the last one was shut down.
JYVdk TIL that the oldest surviving copy of the Book of Revelations lists the number of the beast as 616 not 666.
5ygD TIL “The Declaration of Independence” by John Trumbull doesn’t actually depict the signing of the declaration, but rather the presentation of the first draft to Congress.
ANXLB TIL The famous one-take restaurant shot in Goodfellas was only done that way because the filmmakers could not get permission to go in the short way, and this forced them to go round the back.
Lke09 TIL that had a bull not broken loose from a Norse expedition's settlement in North America around 1000 AD, most of what would become America would be speaking Icelandic by now.