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TIL that North Koreans have had a long-held belief that Kim Il-sung had the ability to teleport until it was debunked by North Korean state-run media recently

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1aWNX TIL that when you get a sunburn, it's not your skin cells being damaged by the sun's UV rays and dying, it's your skin cells' DNA being damaged by the sun's UV rays making the cells kill themselves to prevent turning into cancer
LQrd9 TIL: King Edward VII commissioned a custom "chair" that let him "pleasure" multiple women simultaneously. Three were made, with one "original" and the two others being replicas, one of which is housed in a museum for sex devices.
PYxwO TIL In Okinawa, Japan, a place where the average life expectancy for women is around 90, the oldest in the world, people form a kind of social network called a moai — a group of five friends who offer social, logistic, emotional and even financial support for a lifetime.
Ov8R TIL That the left most pillar of the famous Pillars of Creation, is actually 4 Light Years tall. That is equal to roughly 37,844,000,000,000 Kilometers.
8arWb TIL in North Carolina there is a small sign marking the location where a B-52 broke apart midair in 1961, dropping two nuclear weapons below. One was set to ARM.