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TIL the U.S. quietly provided over $1.3 billion in aid to North Korea from 1995 to 2008, including large scale food shipments during the "Arduous March" famine that killed hundreds of thousands.

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Y7WmP TIL there are many civil war era buildings that still have blood stains in their floors from wounded soldiers during the war when they were used as field hospitals. Especially at Gettysburg and also at Antietam and perryville to name a few.
6EAZ TIL the first woman to be crowned “Miss America” said of the title, “I never cared to be Miss America. It wasn’t my idea. I am so bored by it all. I really want to forget the whole thing.”
wL9dM TIL In 1997, an American co., RiceTec obtained a patent for a strain of rice never historically grown in America — “Basmati”. They achieved this by crossbreeding India’s native plant with a US long rice variety & then claimed exclusive rights over any basmati hybrid grown in the western hemisphere.
4k60N TIL two different comic strips named “Dennis the Menace” both debuted on the same day: March 12, 1951. They were created completely independently of each other, and neither creator knew of the other’s existence
4lp5 TIL Yiddish contains 251 words for the terms buy and sell