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TIL after the North Koreans tried to assassinate the South Korean president, some South Korean generals wanted to dump the assassins’ corpses on the negotiating table

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ne5DG TIL in the 2000 paralympics, the Spanish team in basketball-ID consisted of fully functional semi-pros. They won gold by a landslide but where discovered because one of the players was an undercover journalist investigating fraud comitted by the president of the Spanish Disabled Sports Federation.
Yp7xZ TIL The Mona Lisa's true colours are rather... colourful - due to age, her current colours look faded and yellowed. Many old paintings are vibrant in reality, but currently lack that aspect due to decomposition.
NX4RQ TIL Pope Paul VI dedicated Psalm 8 to the Apollo 11 astronauts and blessed the Moon-landing. After following the mission on TV, he honoured everyone involved and "conquerors of the Moon"
Zp5AB TIL that there was a point during the 1990s when TY beanie babies made up 10% of all sales on eBay.
E1g0x TIL that the last Republican mayor of Pittsburgh served for one year - 1933 - the same year the Pittsburgh Steelers were founded.