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TIL that North and South Korea engaged in a 'flagpole war' during the 1980's to build a tall flagpole. This resulted in North Korea having the tallest flagpole in the world for over a decade at 160 meters high.

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yVd1a TIL of the Iriadamant, a short lived community of mainly foreign people dressed in Native American outfits who lived in Northern Finland lead by a local professor who wanted to learn self sufficiency. After the experiment failed, it turned into a eco-cult whose members lived in extreme poverty.
Z8QnR TIL Studies have concluded that all mammals get about a billion heartbeats per lifetime. They can use them at a rate of 1,000 per minute, like the shrew, or space them out into slow, ponderous beats, over many years, as is the case for the Grey whale.
NeeQ TIL that in 1946 the U.S. Public Health Service infected 1,000 Guatemalan citizens with STD’s for experiments.
gDA TIL that in 1862, Greece held a referendum to elect a new king. The top 8 candidates were disqualified, throwing the election to a Danish prince with .00002% of the vote (just 6 votes). He and his descendants ruled Greece for 100 years.
9YmlQ TIL Griselda Blanco aka The Black Widow was the first-ever billionaire female criminal, ruling her multi-billion dollar drug trafficking empire with an iron fist, and becoming one of the deadliest women of all time.