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TIL the United States and Colombia have territorial disputes over two islands in the Caribbean

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l7pAA TIL that four time World's Strongest Man winner Jón Páll Sigmarsson, who famously stated "There is no reason to be alive, if you can't do deadlift!" died at the age of 32 while deadlifting in his gym.
9WKr TIL South Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world and a basket case economy in 1960, with a GDP Per capita of $79 (poorer than some African countries). 50 years later, the GDP per capita was over $20,000 and the country is a major world economy.
0awv TIL the song Fly Me to the Moon was the first music ever heard on the Moon, when Buzz Aldrin played it on a cassette tape.
R8xl TIL: There’s a gigantic pentagram on Google Maps in an isolated region of Kazakhstan
5V1dD TIL that Ken Allen aka "Hairy Houdini" escaped from his enclosures à la prison break multiple times; inciting his friends-orangutans to follow his lead. No surveillance, no undercover mission to try to catch him in the act, succeeded to fool Ken.