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TIL the South Korean government is in the beginning stages of making insects a primary source of food

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nWXNP TIL less than 20% of Japanese people have passports
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NXemQ TIL that John Wilkes Booth attended the hanging of abolitionist leader John Brown. Booth stood near the scaffold and afterwards expressed great satisfaction with Brown's fate, although he admired the condemned man's bravery in facing death stoically.
VBl4Z TIL that the last recipient of the Gaddafi Human Rights Prize is Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who was awarded the prize in 2010.
0dNrA TIL that the United States severed direct diplomatic relations with the Vatican in 1867 in the wake of rumors of Catholic implication in the Lincoln assassination. Direct relations were reestablished in 1984.