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TIL A museum in North Korea features a VHS copy of "Space Jam"

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JWvj TIL there are 4 million square miles of fertile land in Africa that can’t be cultivated because tsetse flies keep killing farm animals
8Ylb TIL the main component of education in Turkmenistan has been almost completely replaced by memorization of the “Ruhnama”, the president’s personal autobiography. An engineer reported that all his son learns is passages. “He has begun telling me off because he has memorised more of the book than me.”
J1Dp4 TIL Michael Crichton graduated from Harvard Medical school but went into writing instead, writing 13 books by the time he was 33.
pYrPb TIL Clear Lake in California, is the Oldest Lake in North America.
8ekja TIL about the Anti-Tank Dog. Dogs taught to carry explosives to tanks, armored vehicles and other military targets. It failed because they would train the dogs using their own tanks and would mine friendly tanks instead.