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TIL: Horses only have one toe on each foot

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RAQj TIL in the 1960s South Korea secretly trained misfits plucked from prison or off the streets to sneak into North Korea and slit the throat of its leader, Kim Il-sung. When the mission was aborted, the men mutinied, killed their trainers and fought their way into Seoul before blowing themselves up.
D1MmV TIL that the reason that Australia is formally named "The Commonwealth of Australia" is that the framers who wrote the Australian Constitution were obsessed with a book called "The American Commonwealth" that described American democracy in the 1870's. They give it the same "reverence as the Bible".
KOaWJ TIL the kiwi was originally called the chinese gooseberry, and was only named the kiwi because of "branding and psychology"
b95PE TIL hippos can't actually swim. They run across the bottom of bodies of water and hop up when they need to get air.
OoxlL TIL General Motors Hired Prostitutes To Seduce Ralph Nader In An Attempt To Discredit Him Due To A Book He Wrote Called “Unsafe At Any Speed” Exposing The Unsafe Practices Of Car Companies