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TIL that North Korean citizens who flee to South Korea automatically become South Korean citizens

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d8yYZ TIL a day before Elvis Presley died on 16 August 1977, Jerry Ehman of Ohio State University detected an unusually strong signal from space. Instead of the typical random numbers, there was a stream 30 times louder than the background buzz of deep space. Ehman was so amazed he wrote the word "wow!"
PoBZ TIL a study showed a shocking 29% increase in drug usage and a 34% increase in tobacco usage among students participating in DARE(Drug Abuse Resistance Education) in America
pJ08 TIL there are turntables that play records using a laser instead of a needle, and are so accurate that they play the dirt and dust collected in the record grooves
kKVB TIL that Portobello, Cremini, and Button (White) mushrooms are all different stages of maturity for the same mushroom.
VW4k TIL Playboy magazine is available in braille.