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TIL Japaneses invented a machine that un-censor japanese pornography.

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9Y1nG TIL: Parts of the Uplistsikhe cave-town hewn into the rocks of central Georgia date back to 1,000 BC. Archaeologists think the underground complex was still being lived-in in the 1400s. (Georgia the country, not the state)
WNYN TIL that Astronaut Ice Cream flew on only one mission. It was too crumbly, not very popular with the Astronauts, and the technology to carry up real ice cream was in place by 1972.
ANrJo TIL that North Korea is the country with the most active soldiers per 1,000 people (almost 50 soldiers per 1,000 people), the US has 4 per 1,000 people.
ZpgxY TIL that Freddy Mercury once snuck Princess Diana into a gay bar disguised as a man.
loB5N TIL that Mark Taimanov, a Russian chess Grandmaster, after losing 6-0 to Bobby Fischer in 1971's World Chess Championship Candidates quarterfinal, got his salary and his ability to leave the country taken away, aswell as being censored in the press because the Russian government was so embarrassed.