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TIL North Korea started to attempt to emulate certain aspects of China’s economic reform policies in 1980s, but both Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il felt great hostility toward China after Deng Xiaoping launched China on the path of pursuing market-oriented “socialism with Chinese characteristics”

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ARkw TIL an uncontacted tribe still inhabits an island in the Indian Ocean, living as simple hunter-gatherers. They are vigorously hostile to outsiders, and have not yet developed early technologies such as agriculture or writing.
eP7J TIL that up to 90% of the Humpback whale population was eliminated during the whaling era.
v1eR TIL Kris Kristofferson was a Golden Gloves boxer, a Rhodes Scholar, a military Captain, a West Point professor, and landed a helicopter in Johnny Cash’s yard to hand him music that became song of the year, ultimately going ono a successful music career, and then onto Hollywood to make movies.
pYyw4 TIL in 1862 John Langdon Down was the first to describe a distinct mental disability, calling it "Mongolism" due to his perception that children with it shared facial similarities. Now called Down Syndrome, was discovered in the 1950s to be caused by the presence a third copy of chromosome 21.
9wJdr TIL in order to discredit him politically, Octavian sought Mark Antony's will which was safe guarded by the vestal virgins, thinking the contents would be juicy. The vestals refused to hand it, as it was illegal...but told him they couldn't stop him if he just grabbed it by himself, which he did