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TIL Ian Curtis of Joy Division died before John Lennon
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TIL North Korea classifies each of its citizens into one of three groups (called Songbun:) the “core class,” the “wavering class,” and the “hostile class.”
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TIL There's a strain of purple marijuana called Sirius Black
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TIL the kilogram is currently defined as the mass of a platinum-iridium cylinder called the International Prototype Kilogram, which was made in 1879 and is stored in a special vault in France. There exist several dozen official replicas, also called prototypes.
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TIL that the Academy of Persian Language and Literature has maintained that the endonym Farsi is to be avoided in foreign languages, and that Persian is the appropriate designation of the language. The word Persian has been used for centuries, and it carries historical and cultural meaning
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TIL the CIA rigged the 1958 Nobel Prize selection for literature by buying thousands of copies of “Doctor Zhivago” in Europe. The CIA also printed pocket copies of the book and distributed them to Soviet tourists in the West.