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TIL computers can’t actually generate random numbers.

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9KED TIL that of the of the 139 members elected to the 1934 USSR Central Committee of the Communist Party at the 17th Congress, Stalin had 98 executed. Of 1,996 party members present, 1,108 were arrested, and about two thirds of those executed. Thus it was given the name “The Congress of the Condemned”.
QpRX TIL the Hindenburg was designed for helium but the US had a monopoly on helium and banned its export
aOLo TIL while most Countrys moved on to use chip&pin based credit cards, the US still uses widely the outdated Magnetic Stripe card
9YBZB TIL About 120,000 Chinese tourists visited North Korea in 2018, compared to fewer than 5,000 Western tourists. The Chinese government also offers 60 students full scholarships to North Korean universities each year and 70 other Chinese students pay their own way there
j6xwR TIL That Michael Flatley aka “The Lord of The Dance” wrote, produced, directed and starred in ‘Blackbird’, a widely panned 2018 spy thriller.