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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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7Lnb TIL that in Japan there’s a communal event called ‘rui-katsu’ (tear-seeking). It’s when people get together to watch sad clips and then cry to relieve stress.
0d6vy TIL Francis Ngannou worked in Sand mines as a child, was homeless in France, jailed as an illegal in Spain, lived in the forest where he cut himself open scaling barbed wire and was subsequently deserted in the dessert in Morocco before he ever trained to be a fighter.
xaM0 TIL North Korea is the only country where the possession, sale, and cultivation of cannabis is completely legal.
QNJvk TIL that the US military developed nuclear warheads meant to destroy other incoming nuclear warheads. The small 150 lbs warhead would send a neutron flux that would disable any other incoming warhead. Essentially, they would nuke their airspace to prevent another explosion a thousand times larger.
w9P1 TIL Benjamin Franklin was an advocate of “air baths”, during which he would spend up to an hour reading or writing in his house completely nude.