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TIL I learned that the son of a high ranking DPRK diplomat who recently defected was an avid CounterStrike player and had the handle “North Korea is Best Korea”

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n96b TIL that the only remaining head of state who served in WWII is Queen Elizabeth II.
D1VOj TIL that Sylvester Stallone starred in an adult movie much before he became an actor in Hollywood. The movie was called The Party at Kitty and Stud and Stallone was paid $200 for the role. The movie was long forgotten until the director re-released it later when the actor was a big name.
05Kv TIL Claudius was the first of 15 Roman Emperors to not have any male lovers. People thought it was strange that he was only attracted to women.
D1Xgv TIL the San Diego Zoo has live cams that show their animal enclosures
5VQ6p TIL in 1999, British geneticist John Stephen Jones FRS revealed that approx.11 million of the (then) UK population of 58.7 million had a recent Black ancestor they weren't aware of. This was due to the 18th Century Black populations across the country that had been 'absorbed' into the masses...