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

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WoVo TIL that after extensive analysis of charts, currents, video, photographs, interviews, and witness statements it was shown that the Star Princess, a Princess Cruise Ship, did not leave three men adrift in the sea.
691yl TIL John Von Neumann worked on the first atomic bomb and the first computer, came up with the formulas for quantum mechanics, described genetic self-replication before the discovery of DNA, and founded the field of game theory, among other things. He has often been called the smartest man ever.
woYe1 TIL that the world's oldest known piece of chewing gum is over 5,700 years old and was made from birch bark tar.
4XyB6 TIL that Alexander Godunov, who played Karl, the violent German in Die Hard (1988), his first major break into Hollywood was playing a gentle Amish farmer in Witness (1985). In 1979, he had defecting from the USSR and was a world class ballet dancer. Sadly, he died aged 45, in 1995
drKB TIL that a 51 year old man spent 30 years completely alone in the Alaskan wilderness. Richard Proenneke built a cabin entirely by himself featuring a fireplace, cache, and working door locks.