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TIL: The first Western film to be broadcast in North Korea was "Bend It Like Beckham," which state-run TV played on 26th December 2002.

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ADBgg TIL - Rhode Island has twice the population of Wyoming, even though Wyoming is 97x bigger
kk94 TIL a pizza delivery man had a bomb strapped round his neck and was forced to rob a bank. He was arrested by police, and was killed after the bomb detonated.
yK4X TIL Though Jews make up a mere 0.25 percent of the world’s population they account, for 27 percent of all American Nobel Prize winners, 25 percent of all ACM Turing Award winners for computer science, and 50 percent of the globe’s chess champions.
VAA4 TIL that 10 years ago during financial trouble, FC Barcelona almost let Lionel Messi leave the club for free.
gvBL TIL artificial banana flavour doesn’t taste like bananas because the taste is based of a banana that was wiped out by a plague in the 1950’s.