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TIL that Kim Jong-il was born in the Soviet Union under the name Yuri Irsenovich Kim, as the USSR required Russian-style names in official birth records.

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J1XPQ TIL of Thomas(ine) Hall; an intersex person for whom a Jamestown Court in 1629 could not determine their sex, and thus ruled they were both and ordered them to dress in men's and women's clothing at all times.
7D5r TIL The element ‘Cobalt’ gets it’s name from the German 'kobold’ which means 'goblin’. Miners found cobalt veins near their silver, and blamed this strange and dangerous metal on goblins, and thus named it after them.
grmvy TIL that a vial of insulin costs around $6 to make yet sells for as much as $275 in the United States.
pY7pA TIL that Norbert Pearlroth was the main researching force behind Ripley’s Believe It Or Not. He would gain all the information needed by consulting books at the New York Public Library for six days a week, from noon to 10pm over 26 years.
v5wj TIL The doctor who claimed that there was a link between vaccines and autism lost his medical license for fraudulent data produced from a study.