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TIL that under current South Korean laws if war breaks out South Korea doesn’t want to control its own military instead it wants the Americans to tell them what to do

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b9Bgj TIL that 95% of all Thoroughbred racehorses can be traced back to a single 18th-century stallion
DQaLp TIL about nábrók, or "necropants," wich is a pair of pants made from the skin of a dead man, believed to bring wealth and prosperity.
DN8J TIL if you yelled for 1 year, 7 months, 26 days, you would produce enough sound energy to heat a cup of coffee
kO6mE TIL The parents of one of John Wayne Gacy’s victims, John Butkovich, called police more than a hundred times to urge them to investigate him further. Their son had vanished in 1975, and had been one of Gacy’s employees.
QJ7ek TIL Nobel winner in Chemistry John Howard Northrop, known for isolating and crystallizing the first bacteriophage, committed suicide