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TIL Jeff Bezos was Time Magazines Man of the Year in 1999

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w7KP TIL Kim Jong-il, Great Leader and film-lover, had South Korea’s most famous actress and her director husband kidnapped and held hostage for eight years in order to force them to make movies he liked.
XEjvr TIL that people who are depressed can dream 3 times more than the people who are not depressed.
Z8jgQ TIL the only two fictional characters to ever get a real obituary published in a newspaper were Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot in 1975 and Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad creation Walter White in 2013
edDg TIL that Ferdinand Cheval, a postman, every day, for 35 years, picked up stones during his daily mail round. He used the stones to build ‘the perfect palace’, one of the most beautiful amateur architectural works known today.
GrWG TIL A team from Norway and other Scandinavian countries made a viking ship from scratch using viking technology and sailed to North America to prove that the Vikings could do it, and they did!