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TIL that during the 1970s the Communist government of North Korea kidnapped foreign women to provide potential wifes for the American defectors, to prevent them from marrying ethnically Korean women and having mixed children

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QJwd9 TIL An artist recreated 60 pieces of fake art from Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning. Then the art was sold for more than $80 million. 10 lawsuits were filed and a prestigious 165-year-old art gallery was closed once the art was found to be fraudulent.
ARE7 TIL that following her coronation in 1838, 18 year old Queen Victoria returned home to Buckingham Palace and raced upstairs to give her favorite spaniel, Dash, his usual bath.
vdwj TIL one reliable method that is used to detect art forgeries is to test for cesium-137 and strontium-90 in that these isotopes did not occur naturally prior to the first use of nuclear weapons in 1945.
8Q7a TIL There is an Abandoned Soviet Sub Base that Could Hold >3,000 People, and Survive a Direct Nuclear Hit.
4kBEN TIL in 1945 Ireland's president and prime minister both offered official condolences to Germany upon the death of Hitler. They were the only Western European democracy to do so.