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

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5Y5yD TIL “All of My Love” by Led Zeppelin was written as a tribute to Robert Plant’s son Karac, who died of a stomach infection in 1977 when he was 5. Plant did the vocals in one take.
Mey9m TIL Nazis kidnapped “Aryan-looking” children from across Europe and brought them back to Germany for indoctrination.
7Mlb TIL that in 2010, when Google replaced their logo with playable Pacman, users spent an extra 36 seconds on the page. Assuming this time was wasted, it resulted in a $120M loss in man hours.
GA9Nj TIL that Archibald Gracie, a passenger who survived The Titanic sinking but died of complications within a year, had already endured tragedy in 1903, when his young daughter had been compressed to death in a hotel elevator shaft in Paris.
QrVE TIL that motion sickness is due to confusion between perceived movement and actual movement. The brain’s conclusion is that one of the senses is hallucinating due to poison ingestion; the brain then induces vomiting to clear the supposed toxin.