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TIL North Korea supposedly has a literacy rate of 100%

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9bmG TIL Babies have an innate swimming reflex where they hold their breath and slow their heart rate in water until they are 6 months old.
ZpAWG TIL No Mountain gorillas are in zoos and the only way to see them is to go on a gorilla trekking tour. Permits are $700 per person in Uganda, $1,500 per person in Rwanda and visitors are allowed one hour with them
WkBlo Today I learned Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Had two different paths. MLK was about protesting and assimilating into white culture and Malcolm X was about Just being proud to be black. Both were assassinated. MLK by a white man, and Malcolm X by his own people.
9YMbp TIL that Skylab, the first U.S. space station, cost $2.2 billion but was occupied for only 6 months of its 6 years in orbit. It was damaged during launch and eventually fell to Earth on July 11, 1979. The debris fell on western Australia, and the Shire of Esperance fined NASA A$400 for littering.
6kPY TIL modern day Japanese swordsmiths are required by law to use traditional Katana forging techniques, despite the fact that modern day steel does not need to be folded multiple times.