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TIL The Oldest Living Man on Planet Earth (113) Says the Secret to a Long Life is Drinking Alcohol Everyday

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M7bd8 TIL that average salary of an engineer in Pyongyang is $2 a month + up to $50 in bonuses and about 600 grams of rice and corn. It’s half of that in other NK cities (interview with top NK expert, timestamp - 2:03:06)
woPA8 TIL a crystallographer named Yuri Struchkov authored or coauthored 948 scientific papers between 1981-1990, which equates to 1 paper every 3.9 days. In 1992, he won the Ig Nobel prize in literature for his prodigious contributions to the field.
neGEB TIL the 44th Vice President of the United States Dan Quayle misspelled the word potato at an elementary school spelling bee competition
loJ4A TIL that in China, people don’t recognise the name Elvis Presley, and only know him as ‘Maowang’ which translates to ‘The Cat King’
pYP4A TIL in 2005, Michael Jackson planned to build a 50ft robot of himself that would "wander in the [Nevada] desert as an advertisement" for a proposed Las Vegas residency. Funding problems shelved both the robot and residency, and a Nov 2009 meeting to revisit the idea was cancelled once Jackson died