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TIL some trucks in North Korea are powered by burning charcoal because the price of oil is too high for most citizens.

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5Nxk TIL that “A Scanner Darkly” was the first novel Philip K Dick wrote without the help of amphetamines.
4XKZR TIL in one of hundreds of his dangerous visits to the Chernobyl disaster site, nuclear inspector Artur Korneyev was able to take a photo of himself in 1996 near the Elephant Foot, a radioactive mass that initially gave off more than 10,000 roentgens an hour
GRO4 TIL Dr Pepper was designed to be drank hot, as well as cold.
P1V7J TIL that the Tata family, one of India's most prominent business dynasties and the founders of the Tata Group, are Zoroastrians. An ancient Persian religion with fewer than 100,000 adherents worldwide.
LQWP9 TIL the word candidate comes from the Latin word for white; candidus, because Roman senators wore white togas.