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TIL in 2012 a 14-year old North Korean girl drowned while trying to save portraits of Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il, and the government renamed her school after her

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X9dr TIL: Mobile users in poor countries can access Wikipedia articles without data charges thanks to ‘Wikipedia Zero’. It’s currently operating in 34 countries.
VM5LZ TIL of the "Vitamin D Paradox" among black people. Researchers couldn't understand why black folks had better bone health while 80% were chronically Vit D deficient. They discovered black folks make less of a protein which interferes with Vit D. They have less overall but use it more efficiently.
697Vw TIL: There are dozens of long term studies regarding the effects of a father's involvement in childhood. The more time a father spends with their son greater reduces their stress, chance of drug/tobacco use, dangerous behaviors, increases education, and affects future income over 37 years.
WkQLA TIL about Tilly Smith who, at age 10, helped save her family and hundreds of tourists in Thailand from the 2004 tsunami by recognizing warning signs of a tsunami that she had learned in her geography class two weeks earlier.
lN4a TIL in 1994, the pilot of an Aeroflot Airbus A310 allowed his son to sit at the controls during a flight. The boy inadvertently turned off the autopilot controls, sending the plane into hillside and killing all 75 aboard.