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TIL Malaysians are the only nationality allowed to visit North Korea without a visa

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yvyV TIL that adjusting for inflation, the richest person of all time was an African King, Mansa Musa of Mali
9YdQm TIL that In 1980 Keele University, in response to education spending cuts, issued a unilateral Declaration of Independence. The “Free Republic of Keele” declared themselves independent of the UK and issued students with new passports, enforced border control and wrote a new national anthem
jNVEX TIL that Leonardo DiCaprio is named after the artist Leonardo da Vinci, as his pregnant mother was standing in front of a da Vinci painting the first time she felt him kick.
x6vdB TIl Christopher Nolan’s uncle is in Batman begins as a board member
wo61M TIL about Oradour-sur-Glane, a French village where Nazi troops massacred its 643 inhabitants as collective punishment for Résistance activity. Women and children were burned alive in a church, while men were taken to barns, shot in the legs and set on fire as well.