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TIL that North Korea once beat Italy in the FIFA World Cup

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6EVoW TIL the Royal Navy admitted their ships would be empty if they discharged "all the men with homosexual experience". Investigations in the 1960s reveal hundreds of British naval officers were sexually involved with other men, so for national security, discreet homosexuality was mostly ignored.
wo8l8 TIL The energy in nuclear waste could power the U.S. for 100 years, but the technology was never commercialized
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