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TIL North Korea executed 80 people for secretly watching the ABC drama “Desperate Housewives”

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4RJa TIL that Genghis Khan set up an institution to ensure complete religious freedom in the Mongol empire.
4XJYw TIL that the BBC has a section where the news is written in Pidgin.
BgJRW TIL that U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, known as a prankster, liked to frighten visitors to his ranch in Johnson City, Texas, by leading them on a raid in his Amphicar, directly into the lake on his property, while shouting that its brakes were malfunctioning.
NYBM TIL Valve handed out free copies of Portal 2 to schools who wanted to use it to teach physics and critical-thinking
yQg4v TIL that Lenin's body is on public display in Moscow and has been almost all the time since his death 96 years ago.