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TIL North Korea used The Elder Scrolls Oblivion's theme for one of their propaganda videos

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epaeb TIL Sloths only poop once per week and lose 1/3 of their body weight in the process
0wedN TIL that politician Boss Tweed was brought down by Thomas Nast's cartoons, which painted him as the embodiment of corruption. Tweed said to aides, “Let's stop them damned pictures. I don't care so much what the papers write about—my constituents can't read—but damn it, they can see pictures.”
NYge TIL in June 2012 Bloomberg’s international currency software briefly showed an entry called the ‘Post Euro Greek Drachma’. The currency had a brand new code (XGD) and was quickly removed from public view.
kJ7Dm TIL the famous "Tank man" from the tiananmen square protests was never identified.
XADR TIL Pirates used eye patches to quickly adjust their eyes from above to below deck, having one eye trained in bright light, and the other in dim light.