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TIL Marijuana is completely legal in North Korea as it is not considered a drug

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v1P1D TIL that Ivanpah, a solar electric generating system inadvertently created a solar death ray and has killed a lot of birds.
DQ1WJ TIL In 1962 the French Defense Minister and Minister of Scientific Research were accidentally exposed to nuclear fallout. A subteranean nuclear bomb test in Béryl failed and the minister of defence described it as, 'a kind of gigantic blowtorch flame that started exactly horizontal in our direction'
GLY5 TIL, a lieutenant in the Nazi army, Albert Battel, refused to round up Jews and haul them to the Belzec extermination camp. Instead he brought them to a local military barracks for protection. Battel was later discharged in 1944 and settled in West Germany.
BrV0K TIL: A book created by nazi doctors by means of dissecting thousands of executed prisoners is still used today as one of the most detailed medical books for surgeons. It’s quoted as being one of the great moral enigmas
LQjP TIL the largest multi-purpose stadium in the world belongs to North Korea (with a capacity of 150,000), and an execution was staged there in the late 1990s