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TIL that North Korea was the first Asian country to ever advance to the second round of the FIFA World Cup

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P1WOZ TIL Erich Maria Remarque, author of All Quiet on the Western Front, changed the spelling of his last name from Remark to recognize his French ancestors and also because he wanted to distance himself from his earlier book, The Dream Room.
VBKgG TIL that Humans, Killer whales, Narwhals, and a few other types of toothed whales are the only mammal species known to undergo menopause
rRgOo TIL in exchange for appearing in a mobile phone ad, legendary German footballer Franz Beckenbauer requested the novelty number 0176 / 666666. He was then flooded with erroneous phone sex calls by confused callers, since "six" and "sex" are pronounced almost the same in German.
N7wr8 TIL Toto -- the band who made "Africa" and "Rosanna", was the band that played the music for Michael Jackson's THRILLER (!)
KYooa TIL Japanese eels, even the farm-raised ones, are spawn in the waters off the Northern Mariana Islands in the western Pacific Ocean