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TIL: North Korea is home to an Orthodox Church despite being an anti-christian state

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pR1G TIL Adjusting for inflation, Gone with the Wind from 1939 is the highest grossing movie of all time, not Avatar.
GAZP1 TIL that the Archi language could have more than 1.5 million forms of a verb
jwkR TIL that an extinct bird called Rodrigues Solitaire had strange knob-like balls on its wings. These balls were used by the bird as a deadly weapon to defend territory and its mate, and made a noise like thunder in the distance
yVkdl TIL that a penguin has achieved the rank of brigadier general in the Norwegian army.
7805Z TIL about Westward Ho! in England and Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! in Quebec, the only towns in the world with exclamation marks in their names.