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TIL President of South Korea from 2013-2017, Park Geun-hye, was controlled/influenced by the leaders of a Korean cult. They allegedly masterminded government policy and decision making during Park's administration. The regime also established a commission to censor and harass critics in the media.

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9Y66D TIL that President Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the White House. Then, Reagan took them down. Now, one is in China.
OoPDg TIL Ounce by ounce, Nutritious food costs up to 10 times more than junk food.
7L0M TIL that there are some prime numbers that are illegal. It turns out the binary representations of the prime numbers can describe some code that can be used to bypass the DRM on DVDs
wo6vP TIL the estimate for number of stars in the observable universe is not one per grain of sand on all the beaches in the world - astronomers estimate there are 10,000 stars for every grain of sand on every beach in the world.
neLJd TIL of Prince Frederick (1707-1751), the heir apparent to the British throne, who died at the age of 44. His cause of death was historically attributed to a burst lung abscess, caused by blunt force trauma to the chest delivered by a cricket ball.