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TIL: In North Korea this song is played throughout the city at sunrise every morning.

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9xxD TIL The first Canadian casualties in Afghanistan after 9/11 were caused by an American F-16 dropping a bomb on a Canadian military exercise.
Pw4O TIL that a young stripper named Shelly Bauman lost her leg in a freak confetti cannon accident. She sued and used the money from the settlement to open Seattle’s first gay bar, which she named “Shelly’s Leg.”
8a6x4 TIL that for a period of time in 2010, Ozzy Osbourne was the health columnist in the British Sunday Times
Oo7JL TIL: NASA actually published a study of the benefits of plants in the room
VMb8k TIL that the original Trefoil ("Radioactive") symbol was replaced by a red, more grotesque version including a skull and crossbones (ISO 21482), after 3 people died when they carried and dismantled a Cobalt-60 radiation source, not recognizing the symbol.