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TIL that Chinese newspaper cited The Onion naming the North Korean leader as the Sexiest Man Alive without realizing it was a joke

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PYowE TIL that a British man named Michael Faban broke into Buckingham's Palace, twice, in less then a month in 1982. He urinated in the Royal Corgis dog food, wandered the palace, made a maid look crazy, stole wine from Prince Charles room and woke up the Queen in her bedroom.
E1Rb7 TIL that there is a literary magazine titled "Taco Bell Quarterly" dedicated to writing about "any and all elements of Taco Bell."
v1nQ4 TIL The original Street Fighter (1974) was the first movie to ever receive an X-rating in the U.S. for violence alone.
xVO7 TIL only 58 people died from snake bites in Australia between 1979 and 2000 versus 46,000 per year in India.
kJp95 TIL that the oldest surviving film "Roundhay Garden Scene" is from 1888. It is a 3 second clip of a family in a garden.