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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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e095L TIL there are multiple replicas of the White House, built mostly by private citizens, throughout the United States, and two in Iran and China (the Chinese White House includes a replica of Mount Rushmore as well).
mRoY TIL that in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, the name of Uncle Phil’s law firm is “Firth, Wynn and Meyer” as a reference to the band Earth, Wind, and Fire.
OoMre TIL that serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells killed a boy whose own mother was found guilty of the murder. Authorities refused to believe it was the work of a serial killer until 2 years later at a retrial. The prosecutor, not wanting to be in the wrong, still claims that the mother did it.
4Xa86 TIL that an “Antmill” «is an observed phenomenon in which a group of army ants, which are blind, are separated from the main foraging party, lose the pheromone track and begin to follow one another, forming a continuously rotating circle. The ants will eventually die of exhaustion.»
J1BMk TIL that no human has beaten a computer in a chess tournament in over 15 years.