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TIL Leonardo DiCaprio’s new girlfriend wasn't even born yet when Titanic was released

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OoyNY TIL that South Korea formed a covert military unit in 1968 with the intention of assassinating North Korea's leader. Unemployed youths or petty criminals were recruited and trained on an uninhabited island for 3 years. The existence of the unit was covered up until the 1990s.
KOZgE TIL - In the mid 19th Century, the belief persisted that weather was completely unpredictable. When one MP suggested in the Commons in 1854 that recent advances in scientific theory might soon allow them to know the weather in London "twenty-four hours beforehand", the House roared with laughter.
R51j4 TIL about Daf Yomi (Hebrew for "page of the day"), an international program in which people read one page of the Babylonian Talmud every day. It began in 1920 and it takes 7 1/2 years to complete one reading. Today there are daily podcasts and online forums dedicated to that day's reading
KNV6 TIL that in Germany, you must pass a test to become a Dog Trainer. It is currently the only country to have a law that makes dog training a protected profession.
epAGb TIL that in the city of Cincinnati, Appalachians are a protected class.