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TIL the average daily caloric intake in North Korea is 2,103.
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TIL that Mythbuster’s Grant Imahara built the R2-D2 in Star Wars Ep.1&2, and the Energizer Bunny
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TIL Stalin’s hated his oldest son,Yakov, so much that when he tried and failed to commit suicide by gun Stalin joked “He can’t even shoot straight.” Yakov later died in a German concentration camp, possibly after disobeying a guard. Stalin felt this was an honorable death.
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TIL That some parents will have a child for the expressed purpose of harvesting their organs for another child. They are called “Savior Siblings”.
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TIL the pilot script for “Scrubs” called for a “John McGinley type” for the part of Dr. Cox. John C. McGinley still had to audition five times to get the role.
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TIL in 1960, Fidel Castro nationalized all U.S.-owned businesses in Cuba. The US sent CIA trained Cuban exiles to overthrow him, but failed due to missed military strikes. Castro captured the exiles, but ultimately freed them in exchange for medical supplies and baby food worth $53M.