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TIL North Korea’s overall military power is actually ranked weaker than Canada, Australia, and even Switzerland.

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k0P5 TIL in the movie Poltergeist, they used real skeletons. When asked why it was a simple answer, “they were cheaper than the plastic ones.”
E1lvw TIL about the 1916 Black Tom island explosion, one of the largest artificial non-nuclear explosions ever. The explosion of 2 million pounds of ammunition and 100K pounds of TNT damaged the nearby Statue of Liberty and was felt in Philadelphia and Maryland. German saboteurs were the likely culprits.
b6Epa TIL The Volkswagen Type 1 was not officially called the Beetle until 1968; thirty years after the first model was built.
4X7eg TIL on 13th October 1908 Travers Symons escaped from her escort in the Houses of Parliament, burst into the main chamber, interrupted a debate by shouting, & thus became the first woman to speak in the House of Commons. She couldn't be arrested, the police having no power in the Houses of Parliament
wpYW TIL Some plants are able to recognise their relatives and will warn their kin about potential threats, but won’t warn plants they are not directly related to.