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TIL Playboy magazine is available in braille.

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vwXr TIL that a drunk North Korean man passed out on a wooden board to find himself in South Korea the next day as a flood washed him and the board to an island controlled by South Korea.
9YE4Q TIL the slower refresh rate on older TVs means that dogs see a 'flipbook' effect if they watch them, unlike with newer TVs where they are more likely to perceive something as actually moving.
lo9G7 TIL Writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is the only person to have won both a Booker Prize and an Oscar. Readers initially assumed Jhabvala to be Indian because of her portrayals of the nuances of Indian lifestyles. Later, the revelation of her true identity led to falling sales of her books in India
JgYB TIL that Richard Belzer has played the same character, Detective John Munch, in many different TV shows. And since its the same Character, that means that Arrested Development is in the same universe as The X-Files.
gMLL4 TIL about the "Super Guppy," an oddly-shaped, massive plane designed for transporting really really large cargo (rocket parts). Five were built, and they look kind of like flying beluga whales.