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TIL South Koreans worked in the Kaesŏng Industrial Region, a special administrative region in North Korea, from 2004 to 2016

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9YavD TIL that all the photos of ikea products you find in their catalogs are not even real photos. They create all the furniture in a 3D program and place them in different scenes (like a kitchen). Then they render it so realistically that you can't distinguish it from a real photo. Since 2004!
8VjK TIL 13 U.S. states are entirely north of the southernmost point of Canada
ADVLa TIL when billionaire Thomas Peterffy’s father met his new wife he gave his teenage son $100 and kicked him out of the house. With his final words being “Make something of yourself”
mxnYp TIL that cat allergy is not related to the cat fur at all. Animal allergy is caused by the microscopic sticky pet dander proteins that float in the air, carrying saliva, dust and other allergens around.
9YVwr TIL that Action Park, a New Jersey theme park which opened in 1978, was infamous for being poorly constructed, with at least six guests killed by the rides. It featured a water slide which was closed after only a month, and which supposedly decapitated a crash test dummy during safety testing.