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TIL "claptrap" is literal: it means low-quality writing meant to goad a play's audience into cheap applause

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R5V4 TIL that North Koreans who defect to South Korea get $10,000 to $28,000 “start up money.
a1ON TIL Vicodin is six times stronger than codine, which led to the name VI(roman numeral six)-condin
xwD7 TIL each agency of the US government has put a price on a human life. As of 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency set the value of a human life at $9.1 million. Meanwhile, the Food and Drug Administration put it at $7.9 million — and the Department of Transportation figure was around $6 million.
Klkw TIL That there is a large black market for chocolate pies in North Korea.
OKy6 TIL inhabitants of North Sentinel Island have been there for 60,000ish years, remain completely untouched by modern civilization and kill outsiders who get too close.