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TIL the “Free North Korea Radio” broadcasts news of the outside world across the border from South Korea. It was founded by Kim Seong Min, who escaped North Korea by jumping off a train.

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XNBQ TIL a pig named Lulu saved her owner’s life while the woman was having a heart attack. The pig heard the cries of pain, forced her way out of the yard, ran into the road and played ‘dead’ to stop the traffic. A driver stopped, the pig let him to the trailer, he heard women and called 911.
YJbA TIL a man who made fruit drink powder realized kids were eating it like candy. He repackaged it and sold it as Pixy Stix. He added a spoon, later replaced by a candy stick, which became the Fun-Dip. Parents complained about them being too messy, and Sweetarts were created with the same basic recipe.
DQOwg TIL about the 1884 election. Grover Cleveland should have had an easy path to office, but then the scandal broke. He was accused of fathering a child out of wedlock and abandoning the mother. As a result, he won by a razor-thin margin of just 1,047 votes, or 0.09% of all votes cast in the state.
9976 TIL That there is a Stonehenge like structure at the bottom of Lake Michigan with a possible Petroglyph of a Mastodon on one of the boulders.
Wk1dN TIL The biggest data breach in history happened to Yahoo in 2013-2014 whereby all 3B accounts on its service were hacked.