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TIL There’s a dwarf village in a remote part of North Korea. It’s created to prevent ‘short people’ from reproducing.

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8eapa TIL cry rooms were an amenity movie theaters had starting in the 1940s. These were small areas at the back of a theater where those with unruly kids could continue to watch the film. The presence of these rooms declined greatly by the 1970s due to the rise of multiplex theaters.
d8XmB TIL the first undisputed dog remains buried with a human are dated 14,700 years ago. Disputed remains go as far back as 36,000 years ago
xVaa1 TIL Juan García, deliberately became a double agent against the Nazi's during WWII. He was so good he was awarded medals by both sides in the war. He convinced the Nazi's the D-Day landing was a diversion for an attack in Pas de Calais, so they kept large forces there before and after the invasion.
enmJ TIL the first webcam was deployed at Cambridge University computer lab – its sole purpose was to monitor a particular coffee maker and hence avoid wasted trips to an empty pot.
4Ew TIL on July 30, 1978 a city in Japan decided to switch which side of the road they drove on. It took 8 hours to turn all the traffic signs around, and cost $150 million to do the entire conversion.