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TIL that the North Korean government runs an international restaurant chain to launder money

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wLdK1 TIL about "Benjaman Kyle," a man who was found outside a Burger King in Georgia with no identification nor memory of who he was. It took him nearly 11 years to finally discover who he really was.
9YDWG TIL that during the Great Depression, fake currency called Depression Scrip (which were things such as shells, wood, paper, etc) was used as local currency instead of US dollars due to banks being closed.
wl81 TIL a 2009 Oxford study on SSRIs found that SSRI antidepressants caused almost all participants to feel less empathy, sympathy, and positive emotions. Some reported feeling suicidal due to the SSRI emotional numbness and one began to self-harm in an effort to feel emotion.
Gyk7 TIL: That the N.S.A. was caught illegally conducting mass surveillance on American citizens without court authorization, or search warrants……in 1975
X0gnQ TIL Littering can result in imprisonment of up to six years in Tennessee