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TIL of Kim Hyon-hui - a north Korean agent who killed 115 people in a plane bombing. Originally sentenced to death, she was pardoned after less than a year and has been free ever since

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GOdj TIL that there’s a type of neutron star called a magnetar which has a magnetic field that’s so powerful that being within 1,000 miles of one would warp all the atoms in your body and from a distance of 100,000 miles away it would be able to wipe out the data of every credit card on the planet.
VMapk TIL Legendary Mötorhead bassist Lemmy Kilmister had his ashes put into bullets and gave them to his closest friends when he died.
QJKnL TIL that Hugh Laurie struggles with severe clinical depression. He first became aware of it when he saw two cars collide and explode in a demolition derby and felt bored rather than excited or frightened. As he said: “boredom is not an appropriate response to exploding cars".
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vEMK TIL It takes 20 minutes to produce a tin of Pringles, and only 11 seconds to fry each chip