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TIL North Korea holds elections every 5 years in which the ballots list only one candidate and the turnout is 100%.

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D14lj TIL in 1846, Henry David Thoreau refused to pay his taxes because he objected the Mexican-American War and slavery. He spent the night in jail for his actions. This popularized the concept of Civil Disobedience, peacefully protesting a law, which later influenced Gandhi, MLK, and Leo Tolstoy.
awxVo TIL of the 2003 Monkeypox Outbreak, in which there were no documented human-to-human transmissions. Instead, all 71 afflicted parties got infected from prairie dogs. The prairie dogs were likely infected by Gambian pouched rats while they were housed at the same Illinois exotic pet store.
G907 TIL that fish oil can boost your metabolism by about 400 calories per day
E18oV TIL Python's official documentation encourages you to make Monty Python references in your code documentation, since that's what the language is named after.
KPRQ TIL a school was locked down and a student was arrested when the secretary rang a student who’s voicemail greeting was the “Fresh Prince of Bel Air” theme song and she misheard “shooting people out side of school”