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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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VM908 TIL Lillian Brown, the makeup artist of nine US presidents, stopped Richard Nixon's sobbing before he was about to go on national television to announce his resignation by telling him a funny story so that his makeup wouldn't be ruined.
MLxb TIL When a species of slime mold was exposed to conditions simulating Tokyo’s topography, it formed a copy of the city’s railway system.
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oBaa7 TIL after graduating college at 13 with a degree in Mathematics, child genius Promethea Pythaitha received considerable unwanted attention from the Greek-American Community, including an obsessive stalker who was killed in front of her house.
6EJnw TIL that the Nepal Royal Family was massacred in 2001, eventually leading to a republic.