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TIL that North Korea's main export is fake hair

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MeVya TIL that the first chainsaw was invented in 1830 and not made for cutting trees. It was called an Osteotome and designed to aid in childbirth - quickly sawing through the pelvic bone was sometimes seen as better than a caesarean.
N7eZ6 TIL that there is a massively popular children's TV character in Germany called Bernd das Brot (Bernd the Bread) who is a depressed loaf of bread whose catchphrases include "I would like to be left alone" and "My life is hell".
KYKlB TIL there was a french man named Tarrare who had the most unusual eating habits. As a teen he could eat his own weight in meat in a day. Later in life he ate a meal intended for 15 people in a single sitting, ate live cats and puppies and swallowed eels whole without chewing. He was underweight.
14jW TIL that the average private school teacher makes $14,000 less per year than the average public school teacher
KYX4R TIL In the Middle Ages in Europe they would burn cats for entertainment, sometimes symbolically as they associated them with witchcraft