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TIL about the Hiller Flying Platform, a 1950s hoverboard.

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e0JLD 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
nWKJB TIL Dorinish (Irish: Deoirinis) is an uninhabited island in Clew Bay in County Mayo, Ireland. During the 1970s it was briefly inhabited by Hippies who established a commune there under the patronage of the island's then owner John Lennon.
kJPkB TIL The state of Singapore was expelled from the Malaysian federation due to a heated ideological conflict between their respective ruling parties.
vrg4 TIL Stalin’s granddaughter lives in Portland, Oregon, where she sells antiques, vintage clothes, and scented candles.
epnbL TIL A Student of Sheffield University, with an IQ of 126, had virtually no brain. The student had cerebral tissue less than 1mm deep.