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TIL: Kim Jong Un was voted Time Magazine’s person of the year in 2012 after 4chan users hijacked the magazine’s online polls

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lo055 TIL that Heracles built his own funeral pyre, but no one would set it alight so Philoctetes stepped up to light it and was rewarded with Heracles' bow, which he later used to help the Greeks win the Trojan war
b9LB0 TIL that cities used to have 'ugly laws.' People were fined $1 to $50 per day if they were deemed 'too ugly' to go out in public. The last Ugly Law wasn't rescinded in Chicago until 1974.
7XRp TIL that Justice Ginsberg wears a different collar depending on whether she agrees with the majority or minority opinion in supreme court opinions.
OoG61 TIL that Vladimir Lenin’s perfectly preserved body is on display in Moscow. He died in 1924 and was born in 1870, making his body 147 years old.
ANANo TIL that humans are 200,000 times more sensitive to smelling rain than sharks are at smelling blood