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TIL the two Koreas were split before for roughly 300 years.

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GYjEG TIL the legendary golden fleece sought by Jason and the Argonauts in Greek mythology is thought to have been inspired by the lustrous fur of the golden takin, a hoofed animal native to the eastern Himalayan mountain range and one of four takin subspecies. The takin is the national animal of Bhutan.
dWDK TIL: That no participant of the U.S. Marshal’s witness protection program who have followed the established guidelines have been harmed since it’s inception in 1971.
v1ojr TIL After a bite from the inland taipan, your muscles start to dissolve into your blood. A typical cause of death is then kidney failure because they can not handle processing all the dissolved muscle tissue.
wLY1J TIL during his year in space, astronaut Scott Kelly's feet became very soft "like newborn baby feet", because all the calluses fell off due to weightlessness.
OovX TIL that if someone who knows they have HIV/AIDS has sex with someone and doesn’t tell them about their disease, they could be charged with attempted murder.