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TIL North Korea’s most brutal prison camp is visible on Google Maps.

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DQErJ TIL about magnolia plants are so old that they are pollinated by beetles, because they were around before the advent of bees.
M65V TIL Norman Rockwell’s painting “People Reading Stock Exchange” has a man with three legs. Rockwell didn’t notice this until it was pointed out years later.
0wyD1 TIL after objections from National Conference of Catholic Bishops, the submarine SSN-705 was renamed USS City Of Corpus Christi to better reflect the ship honoring the city in Texas as opposed to the Body of Christ.
ZpKGG TIL of CONOP 8888, also known as Counter-Zombie Dominance: a U.S. Department of Defense Strategic Command CONOP document that describes a plan for the United States and its military defending against zombies
xWv0 TIL a hot dog stand in the center of the Pentagon was rumored to be the target of a Soviet missile strike during the Cold War because the Soviets reportedly thought it was the Pentagon’s most top secret meeting room, and the entire Pentagon was a large fortress built around the hot dog stand.