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TIL North Korea adopted color television broadcasts (1974) 6 years before South Korea (1980) despite the latter already producing color TV sets for export.

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loXjB TIL that reckless driving was so rampant in the early 1900's that many cities held safety parades. Mangled cars with warning signs were towed through streets and thousands of children dressed as ghosts to represent each death that year, followed by grieving mothers who wore stars to show their loss.
N7DjE TIL ants nurse their wounded comrades after a raid. And if they deem themselves too deeply wounded they'll refuse treatment so they can tend to other ants with higher chances of survival.
mWoP TIL that, of the 15 most successful movies of 2014, none was from an original screenplay, one (American Sniper) was from a book, the rest are remakes, sequels, and comic adaptations
Z8mRB TIL Japan didn't start eating salmon until it was introduced to them by Norway in the 1980's
BrL1e TIL that for the signing of the 1940 armistice between Germany and France, Hitler had the railcar that was used at the end of WWI placed in the exact same spot as the 1918 armistice and afterwards had the site destroyed.