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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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J18KV TIL: the 1/4" jack or the 'guitar cord jack' is the oldest connector-type still used. It was the standard for the original phone switchboards.
mZvP TIL that organized “wife swapping” was started in the 1940s on U.S. Air Force bases by fighter pilots and their wives. Researchers found it was “a kind of tribal bonding ritual, with a tacit understanding that the two thirds of husbands who survived would look after the widows.”
dDX0E TIL that there was a group that created a sperm bank exclusively containing the semen of Nobel Prize winners in hopes of selectively birthing the next generation of geniuses.
9oGG TIL that the “bubonic plague” was a specific way of dying from the plague wherein lymph nodes would swell into lumps called “bubos.” This is also the origin of bruises being called “boo-boos.”
YPaA TIL Jenny McCarthy’s kid never had autism