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TIL "Comrade Kim goes Flying" is North Korea’s first “girl power” movie and it was screened at numerous film festivals in 2014. The story of coal miner, her dream of becoming a trapeze artist is crushed by an arrogant trapeze star who believes miners belong underground and not in the air

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nxa9 TIL that a theoretical physicist is in between between “Monkey-Sex Observer” and “Vermin Handler” for the worst jobs in Science.
pjWb TIL that Teddy Roosevelt was so bored as VP of the United States that he seriously considered finishing law school while serving.
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