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TIL South Korea has completely Autonomous Turrets, SGR-A1 developed by Samsung, deployed along its entire 160 mile border with North Korea, making it the most militarized border in the world.

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N7vJ1 TIL "Marcha Real" the national anthem of Spain.It is one of only four national anthems(along with those of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and San Marino) that has no official lyrics.Though the Marcha Real has no lyrics, words have been written and used for it in the past.
kO8K1 TIL If you die in Amsterdam with no next of kin and nobody to attend your funeral, a poet will write a poem for you and recite it at your funeral.
b9EX7 TIL of Project A119 - a US Cold War plan to nuke the moon
9wApM TIL that the US, Turkey, New Zealand, Canada, Australia, Argentina, and the UK are all within 10 percentage points when it comes to obesity rates
OGW4 TIL In Australia, there are a group of women, who dress in gold bikinis and feed expiring parking meters