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TIL that people in West Virginia have the same life expectancy as North Koreans

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eJeE TIL That Samsung has built a sentry gun which sits in the Demilitarised Zone between North and South Korea, which is hostile to anyone it senses who cannot provide an authorised access code
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bY4 TIL that America’s first recorded student protest, the Great Butter Rebellion, was sparked by the cry ‘Behold, our butter stinketh! - give us therefore, butter that stinketh not.’
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