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TIL Creator of Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda, Shigeru Miyamoto, is forbidden to go to work with a bicycle because his safety is too valuable

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oR9dE TIL Jackie Kennedy studied French Indochina and become passionate about it .Her fluency in French and knowledge of French History was particularly valuable, as she was able to translate French books, documents, and treaties related to Indochina, which helped JFK in his understanding of the region.
b9kB7 TIL that Christmas is banned in North Korea and instead of Christmas, the birthday of Kim Jong-suk (grandmother of the current supreme leader of North Korea) is celebrated on Christmas eve. However, some North Korean Christian believers still celebrate Christmas in secret.
6EVN7 TIL: Japanese kitchen knives are a lot sharper than Katana swords since blacksmiths switched from making swords to making knives when the samurai were banned from carrying swords in the 19th century to modernise Japan after the Meiji Restoration.
YgoZ TIL that Ray Charles, in December 2002, gave 10 of his 12 children each a check for one million dollars at a family luncheon, while the other two could not make it.
e0m55 TIL there is a species of beetle that lives in ant nests by imitating the sounds of the ant queen. These beetles feed on ant eggs, larvae and adults by piercing their mandibles into the abdomen or other soft part and sucking the contents. There appears to be no benefit to ants from the association.