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TIL North Korea had a higher GDP per capita than South Korea in 1970

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X01v6 TIL A galactic "second" is eight earth years. The "big year"—a complete rotation of the Milky Way—takes 250 million of our local years to complete, making a comparable "day" nearly 700 thousand years, an "hour" 25,500 years, and a "minute" 475 years. A galactic "nanosecond" is 1/4 of an earth second
pYddA TIL Time did not originally name a "Man of the Year" in 1941; Dumbo the elephant, whose film was released that year, was supposed to be "Mammal of the Year". Then Pearl Harbor happened and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was quickly anointed "Man of the Year" (for a record third time).
pYJG8 TIL of Mariam Nabatanzi Babirye, a woman who has birthed 51 children, with 44 still alive. As of April 2023, her eldest children is 31 years old, and the youngest is six years old. She is a single mother, who was abandoned by her husband in 2015.
l7OlB TIL that despite remaining neutral during WWII, Switzerland was accidentally bombed over 70 times, most often by the US. After Zurich was accidentally bombed 1945, the American pilots were courtmartialed, and the presiding officer was Col. Jimmy Stewart.
Y767d TIL that, when writing Dracula, Bram Stoker was greatly influenced by his father’s interest in theatre and his mother’s gruesome stories about her childhood during the cholera epidemic in 1832.