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TIL that North Koreans abducted dozens of Japanese which they apologise for in 2002.

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YlQd TIL that humans’ closest relative, Bonobos, have a peaceful female-run society where sex is used to resolve conflict. They “make love, not war.”
5V8Mn TIL that Pope Donus II never existed; his name was a result of a medieval scribal error misreading the Latin honorific "domnus" as a proper name. And despite his fictional origin he has been praised for some honourable conduct and even has Images supposedly depicting him.
neoEr TIL President Ronald Reagan saw the Soviet cult film “Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears” at least eight times in preparation for his meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985, to try and understand the mysterious Russian soul.
8eRjK TIL that during the Pony Express' 18 months of operation, it covered a distance equivalent to circling the Earth 30 times to deliver a total of 34,753 letters, and only lost one bag of mail.
WkZRA TIL The Pyramids that were in America before it was colonized.