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TIL South Korea, despite having completed the transistion to digital broadcast (ATSC) in 2012, still maintains analogue broadcast near its borders for North Koreans watching South Korean TV in secret.

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0KJp TIL that a Roman prostitute named Marozia not only was the mistress of one pope, but her bastard son, two grandsons, two great grandsons, and one great great grandson all eventually became popes. The era in which they ruled is known by scholars as the “pornocracy”.
0O0M TIL that when Lawrence Anthony, an international conservationist famously known as the ‘Elephant Whisperer’, died, some of the elephants he worked to save came to his family’s home in accordance with the way elephants usually mourn the death of one of their own.
WkKWB TIL about 36-year-old man who consumed so much dish detergent that he expelled "citrus smelling" foam from his mouth and anus and went into organ failure.
1a4XO TIL that autististic and schizophrenic people have elevated urine levels of bufotenin, an no reason for this is known. Bufotenin is the also found in the toxin of the Colorado River Toad, which is known for its psychedelic effects.
woMK1 TIL there is a term for phobia of other people’s opinion of you. It’s called Allodoxaphobia and it can be treated through therapy