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TIL when North Korean leader Kim Jong-il was parodied in the film Team America: World Police (2004), the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea asked the Czech Republic to ban the film.

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GYgQN TIL when firing the Germans biggest cannon in WW1, they had to move 300 yards away and fire it electrically. They were still so close they required cotton wadding in their eyes, nose and ears, and fired it with their mouth open to prevent the gun from blowing out their ear drums.
KOOLw TIL there was a bug stuck in a Van Gogh painting, and no one noticed it for 128 years.
V000 TIL A British band “Marconi Union” has worked with sound therapists to create a tune described by scientists as the “most relaxing song ever”.
E1Edo TIL that author, Barbara Follet, who published her first book at 12, vanished under strange circumstances. Her disappearance eerily resembles the last paragraph in her final book.
bpPN TIL that when Titanic sank, the survivors where mainly women & children while in Lusitania it was mainly men. This is because Lusitania sank in 20 minutes, triggering the flight reflex in men while Titanic took 160 minutes, leading men overcome their instincts and act in a chivalrous manner.