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TIL A North Korean submarine got stuck in a fishing net

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kON7E TIL Hot Dogs are served in buns (vs just a sausage) because vendors in the 1800s were losing money when they used to hand out sausage holding gloves, which people wouldn't return or would keep as souvenirs...
JYej1 TIL, aroundf 2.1 billion years ago, there existeed several multicellular organisms, that were likely one of the first forays into multicellularity, they coincided with a brief moment of increased oxygen levels and went extinct after the levels dropped, they do not have any modern-day descendants.
5YxEQ TIL Charles Dickens once jumped in through the window of his wife-to-be's home dressed in a sailor suit, did a jig whilst playing the hornpipe, jumped back out the window again and re-entered the room as if nothing had happened.
grjRD TIL that Kudzu otherwise known as Japanese Arrowroot is actually edible. It is also used medicinally in Eastern countries. (PSA, do not eat wild Kudzu especially in the south in South America as it has a chance to have been treated with pesticides, only consume it if you grew it yourself)
lwJG TIL that in 1966 a 26yr old man successfully fasted for 382 days and lost 276lbs