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TIL that you can send your kid to a Communist summer camp in North Korea

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8aJ4G TIL that a man named George Wright in 1972 hijacked a plane and disappeared. He was then on the run for 41 years until he was captured in Portugal.
e0BmD TIL Prince planned on having a female alter ego named Camille by recording his vocals at a slower speed, so when it was played back, his pitch would be higher. The plan was scrapped and most of the tunes resurfaced later as album tracks or B-sides.
v1gdx TIL that many people carved various things on the walls of Hagia Sophia throughout the centuries. These runes were carved by a Viking general who is presumed to have gotten bored during the mass and carved "Halvdan was here" on a marble slab.
eP1n TIL that a popular 70s Japanese kids show called Rascal the Raccoon led to a raccoon adoption craze in Japan. Eventually, raccoons invaded the wild, where they continue to this day to wreak havoc on infrastructure and the environment as they have no natural predators.
ng7d TIL the phenomenon of “island gigantism”, in which the size of animals isolated on an island increases dramatically in comparison to their mainland counterparts.