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TIL that North Korea operates a restaurant chain called Pyongyang and its chains mostly operate in China, serving mostly mediocre food.

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R7y54 TIL the inventor of the U-bar bike lock and founder of Kryptonite, Stanley Kaplan, was bought out by his business partner Michael Zane, who proceeded to remove Kaplan from company history and claim that he had invented the lock.
OwA6 TIL The last united states aircraft to be shot down in combat was by another united states aircraft
VMpYm TIL that the last German plane to fly over Britain during WW2 was a jet-engined bomber.
PvOe TIL US Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Martin van Buren, and Dwight Eisenhower all had red hair.
4k0rb TIL in 1973, illusionist Uri Geller, famous for spoon bending acts, tricked the CIA into believing he had psychic powers. During classified experiments at Stanford Research Institute, he replicated hidden drawings convincingly using stage magic.