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TIL Pot is legal and in North Korea. It carries no social stigma, and is widely used.

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PYkpn TIL that Solid Snake was named after Snake Plissken and imagined to have the body of Jean-Claude Van Damme and the face of a young Christopher Walken.
AGpd TIL in 1996, Lego gave bricks to Polish artist Zbigniew Libera asking him to make a set for them. He decided to make a recreation of Auschwitz
nWG1o TIL about Dick Stevenson, the legendary Canadian bartender who invented the “sour toe” cocktail. The drink contains a mummified human toe and in when Dick died 5 years ago, his will stated that all 10 of his toes be used in making sour toe cocktails.
ODg7 TIL: Composer Sun Ra once performed for catatonics and schizophrenics. One broke a years-long silence to ask him “Do you call that music?”
OGla6 TIL lungs don’t expand from air coming in, but the other way around: the ribcage and lungs expand FIRST, causing a negative pressure inside the lungs that makes air rush inside