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TIL After North Korea banned Choco pies, South Korea airlifted 10,000 of them across the DMZ with balloons

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v164D TIL of Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon, Dutch students who died mysteriously in the jungles of Panama in 2014. Some belongings were found, bone fragments, a foot still inside a boot, and one of their cameras with over 500 photos.
r7Md TIL When Youtube started requiring G+ accounts to comment, one of YT’s founders wrote on his his Youtube profile “why the fuck do i need a google+ account to comment on a video?”
gr0WW TIL that, during 1994 World Cup, the BBC issued a public apology after its football pundit commented during the match between Argentina and Romania that "The Argentine defender warrants shooting for a mistake like that", a day after Colombian defender Andres Escobar was shot six times and killed
PYdZL TIL Eddie Murphy never left his home when he did the voice of Mushu in Mulan. He accepted the role on the condition he could record all his lines at his home recording studio.
VBVX8 TIL that the then-president of Kappa Sushi, who used to be an executive at Hama Sushi from 2014 to 2017, was arrested in 2022 for obtaining data from Hama Sushi. The data includes monthly sales figures & prices at which Hama Sushi bought its seafood. He received the data from his former colleague.