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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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69AYJ TIL of Georgi Dimitrov, a Bulgarian communist who made his own defence when put on trial by the Nazis for the Reichstag Fire. Acquitted, he eventually became the leader of communist Bulgaria after WW2.
O0GY TIL Thanksgiving and Hanukkah will overlap this year (A.D. 2013) and won’t overlap again until A.D. 79,811.
16x08 TIL about Camille Armand Jules Marie de Polignac. He was a French nobleman who fought for the Confederates in the American Civil War. When he died in 1913, he was the last surviving Confederate major-general.
kJ9y4 TIL from 1810 to 1840 tobacco merchant & philanthropist Joseph Williamson funded excavations of an extensive network of tunnels & chasms, the purpose of which is still not fully clear. The tunnels were later used as waste pits until they were "rediscovered" in 1995.
N7AjJ TIL of an unusual death at the Condor Club, San Francisco in 1983. Bouncer Jimmy Ferrozzo and his girlfriend Theresa Hill were having sex on the club's famous white piano which descended from the ceiling via cables. They accidentally hit the 'on' switch and the piano ascended, asphyxiating Ferrozzo.