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TIL Kim Jong-Il was born in Russia.

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6oZX TIL that, Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier from World War II, never surrendered when the war ended, and continued to fight in the Philippines till 1974, when a student found his former CO and got him to convince Onoda to surrender.
GAXvJ TIL vasectomy can fail
LnVP TIL that in the 1960s, the sugar industry funded research that downplayed the risks of sugar and highlighted the hazards of fat
9wxL6 TIL Alysson Muotri wants Sentiomics: Sentiomics is the development and ‘education’ of human brain organoids to become sentient.
W1DL TIL that two of Saturn’s moons, Janus and Epimetheus, only have an orbital altitude difference of 50km. Due to this, one moon will ‘catch up’ to the other every four years, and they will begin a 100 day process in which they exchange orbital positions.