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TIL Author Paek Nam-nyong is a household name in North Korea and his bestseller novel "Friend" became the first state-sanctioned novel available to English readers

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vaDK TIL that a person who deals with and persists through difficulty or hardship without complaint is a trouper, not a trooper
8aWKP TIL Thomas Young, a brilliant polymath, is known as "The Last Man Who Knew Everything." Some of his contributions include discovering the wave theory of light, describing elasticity, inventing the tuning method of musical instruments and many more....
grnyX TIL the USA has given out almost $4 trillion USD in foreign aid.
m1lyY TIL Ancient Egyptians would put dead mice in their mouth with the hopes it would cure a toothache.
D1oVJ TIL that Malaria killed ~10k troops in the US Civil War