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

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5Y6wB TIL about Sergei Avdeyev, a Russian astronaut who holds the record for time travelling the longest, after spending 747 days in space, he has travelled 0.02 seconds into his own past due to time dilation.
m11lo TIL Frank Dixon, author of the Hardy Boys books and Carolyn Keene author of the Nancy Drew Series don't exist. They are actually pseudonyms for a variety of writers who wrote those stories
BaYe TIL that Charles Dickens grew up during a ‘Little Ice Age’ and hence it snowed for each of his first 8 Christmases influencing his writing and hence today’s tradition of a 'White Christmas’.
lrZK TIL that a man was killed by a lava lamp in 2004, when he chose to heat the glass section via stove. The lamp built up so much pressure that it exploded, and a piece of glass shot through his heart.
OoQb1 TIL that a man attempted to kill president Andrew Jackson, but both of his guns misfired and upon this the president himself took out the attacker with his cane.