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TIL That the Hostages Involved in the Iran Hostage Crisis Were Given Lifetime Passes to MLB Games

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y7Op TIL When Kim Jong-un was a student in Switzerland his identity was kept secret. He was registered as the son of an employee of the North Korea embassy. His alias was “Chol-pak”. Apparently his grades were poor and he enjoyed playing basketball.
Zp97p TIL that Homo sapiens were not the first farmers in Earth's history. Ants have been farming fungus for over 60 million years.
aw5ZJ TIL 'Red Cross' goes by Red Crescent in most of the Islamic countries as the Ottomans deemed the 'Cross' offensive to their religious sensibilities despite it being derived from the Swiss Flag . In 1983 the name of the organization was changed to "International Red Cross & Red Crescent Movement"
x6EPg TIL: There is a real life "Death Note", where Japanese women wish how and why they want their spouse’s to die.
eQy5 TIL that Christopher Nolan “believes that audiences can sense when things are actually there instead of just being all computer generated”, which is why he constructed large-scale practical sets for spacecraft in “Interstellar”, including both the interior and parts of the exterior.