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TIL South Korea has been blasting “Gangnam Style” on repeat across the DMZ at North Korea since January and have stated they won’t stop until North Korea hands over their nuclear weapons.

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D1RVp TIL Freddie Mercury passed away in November 1991. On the following Christmas Day, Elton John received a package. When he opened it, he found a painting by Henry Scott Tuke, his favorite painter. There was also a note from Freddie wishing him a Happy Christmas. The gift made John cry like a child
VEJk TIL the creator of WinRar, Ron Dwight, passed away in 2002.
0woLy TIL A 3-year-old boy was buried with his tricycle after he was killed in the atomic blast at Hiroshima. The trike is now on display at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
GQn7 TIL The Beach Boys stole the song “Never Learn Not To Love” from Charles Manson. Manson later attempted to murder them, but the police were never called because the Beach Boys were afraid the truth would ruin their image.
mK0O TIL the Nazis’ post war plans for the USSR consisted of killing over 100 million “racially inferior Slavs” by extermination through labor, starvation, and deportation while enslaving the remaining survivors as illiterate serfs on German plantations.