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TIL A North Korean submarine got stuck in a fishing net

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5Pb8 TIL Sega was actually an American company that started in Hawaii and moved to Japan to distribute coin-operated jukeboxes, games, and slot machines to military installations.
gGnb TIL the North and South Poles have no official time zones. In the North, countries which have research stations follow their respective countries’ times. The South Pole has only one research station (US-owned), and they use New Zealand time because researchers fly in from Christchurch.
b9OZ7 TIL that the "General Sherman" tree in the Giant Forest is approximately 2200 years old. It would have been a little sapling 200 years before Jesus walked the earth
rNEno TIL that the Rambo lunchbox by Thermos in 1985 marked the end of the metal lunchbox era. Manufacturers switched to making lunchboxes with plastic because it was cheaper and because a group of mothers in Florida complained that metal lunchboxes were being used by children as weapons.
Eg5nw TIL about the Chinese Tiangong space station, which has been permanently crewed since 2022.