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TIL North Korea created a military rank equivalent to a seven-star general in order to have their leaders outrank the military leaders of all other countries.

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yQWAw Til: A male ferret is called a hob; a female ferret is a jill. A spayed female is a sprite, a neutered male is a gib, and a vasectomised male is known as a hoblet. Ferrets under one year old are known as kits. A group of ferrets is known as a "business".
4kmoJ TIL the band iron butterfly didn't know they were being recorded in the studio for 17 minutes when they played their now-hit song In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida; it went on to sell 30 million times
wLmeW TIL during the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet military warned all soldiers that if they surrendered their families would be shot. Later, one of the soldiers who ended up surrendering was Stalin's own son, Yakov Dzhugashvili.
Z8GQR TIL the source of a 1964 Typhoid outbreak in Scotland was traced to a river in Argentina. A meat processing plant there used polluted river water for cooling tins of canned beef. Somewhere there was a leak, which contaminated the meat before it was shipped to Scotland, where it killed 3 people.
KOByB TIL that in 1876, Sigmund Freud dissected 400 eels looking for testicles. To this day, the eel's mating habits remain a scientific mystery.