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TIL North Korea could have a lot of oil. NK reportedly has seven underexplored geological basins, with three basins said to have “proven working petroleum systems"

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M4x0 TIL the average house in the US is almost 3 times bigger than the average house in the UK
E1aBo TIL Jeff Bridges wears the same t-shirt in 3 different movies, Cold feet, The fisher King, and The big Lebowski. The shirt is a pic of Japanese Professional Baseball Player, Kaoru Betto, who was the recipient of the first Pacific League MVP.
7neP TIL that Peter Pan will never go out of copyright in the UK, because of a special law that was passed in 1987 which distributes all royalties from the story and related works to a children’s hospital in London.
woZa7 Today I learned that Anglerfish mate by fusing together, the small male will attatch to the larger female, basically becoming a parasite, not all do this
x68ek TIL in 1945 Ireland's president and prime minister both offered official condolences to Germany upon the death of Hitler. They were the only Western European democracy to do so and were described at "indifferent to the Nazi persecution of the Jews."