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TIL a $1 bill received in a balloon from South Korean activists buys 9 pounds of corn, and is like winning the lottery for some in North Korea.

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Yk6B TIL Alabama still has a segregation law in their constitution and voted not to repeal it as recently as November 2012.
W7QxB TIL about “Turkey Twizzlers”, pig-tail shaped fried meat snacks that were beloved despite being only 34% turkey, and served in schools in the UK until 2005 when celebrity chef Jamie Oliver encouraged the British government to controversially ban on them and other unhealthy snacks in school lunches.
R55n7 TIL Actor Steven Michael Quezada who played Steven "Gomez" in the AMC series Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul is a member of the Bernalillo County Board of Commissioners (District II)
LmQp TIL of the Cathedral Effect. When ceiling height is conspicuously low or high it can promote different kinds of thinking, with higher ceilings promote abstract thinking and creativity and lower ceilings promoting concrete and detail-oriented thinking.
Y7B0d TIL that there is a rise in Hyundai and Kia car thefts because online videos have revealed that they can be hot-wired using just a USB cable