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TIL Former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il once claimed to have invented hamburgers

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4XnPX TIL “Tzar” is just Caesar in Russian.
16wnV TIL That during WW2, President of China Chiang Kai-Shek had to be kidnapped by two of his generals to a negotiating table with the Chinese Communist Party rebels to negotiate a ceasefire that would let him make preparations for the Second Sino-Japanese War.
grA58 TIL there were 3 fatal mountain lion attacks in cali between 1994 and 2004
5VN4p TIL that in 1783, the Laki volcano in Iceland erupted for 8 months. It caused a famine that killed 1/3rd of all Icelanders and changed global temperatures. The 1784 winter saw ice flows in the Gulf of Mexico and a frozen Mississippi river as far as New Orleans
pYJjp TIL Albert Lexie was a shoeshiner who worked at the Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh beginning in the early 1980s. Over the course of his roughly 30-year career he donated $200,000 to the Free Care Fund, more than a third of his lifetime salary.