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

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r8rd TIL that one of the oldest chess strategy books, from 1561, recommends playing with your back to the sun to blind your opponent. If playing at night by a fire, it advises you to cast a shadow over the board with your hand, so your opponent “will not be able to see where to play his pieces.”
P1Yw TIL Shaq is working toward his doctorate, with a capstone titled “The Duality of Humor and Aggression in Leadership Styles”
QJEAd TIL that in 1994 a Boy Scout attempted to make a neutron gun and irradiated himself and his neighborhood in the process until he got arrested.
lpZG TIL that due to name confusion, staff at Slovakia and Slovenia meet once a month to exchange wrongly addressed mail
nebxb TIL In 1940, Churchill and De Gaulle briefly supported merging France and Britain into a single nation, with joint citizenship, a single currency, and a constitution.