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TIL South Korea has governors for the 5 provinces it claims in North Korea

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XOaD TIL Warner Bros studios didn’t like the idea of Jack Nicholson’s character dying in Mars Attacks, so Tim Burton gave Nicholson two different characters and killed both of them.
P1j4E TIL that typhoid fever and typhus are two different diseases, caused by two unrelated strains of bacteria. This was not known until the 1800s. The word “typhoid” means “resembling typhus.”
v1lYr TIL Anchorites took their religious devotion to extreme levels, vowing to remain walled into a cell for the rest of their lives. This mostly happened to the Middle Ages, but also in modern times, some chose the life of an anchorite.
yVKgJ TIL that there are quiet props for film and TV that replace typically noisy objects (i.e. paper bags)
lorDA TIL After the release of the film "Jaws", fishermen started catching as many sharks as possible, believing they were doing a public service, causing a huge decline in shark populations in the North Atlantic. Peter Benchley, the author of the original book, has become a dedicated conservationist.