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TIL of the Dai Hong Dan incident. North Korea and the United States teamed up to defeat Somali pirates

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rR0Wd TIL Toxoplasmosis, a disease spread by cats and mostly harmless to humans, is a deadly disease to kangaroos
k4Z1 TIL that between 1960 and 1977, the secret number authorizing US presidents to launch nuclear missiles was 00000000.
R88j TIL that cattle farmers feed their cows magnets to prevent metal objects that they eat while grazing from tearing up their intestines.
OgZ7 TIL- One of Napoleon’s original 18 Marshals of France possibly faked his execution and escaped to the United States.
Brypr TIL ‘Old-Person Smell’ was confirmed by scientists as real, along with distinct young- and middle-aged-person smells.