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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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rR4v1 TIL Helicopters have a top speed they can never surpass.
BgXnr TIL 70% of people in the world do not use toilet paper.
EE97 TIL in 1987 a Chicago tv station had its broadcast interrupted by a pirate signal that showed a man in mask being spanked with a fly swatter. Despite investigations by the FCC and FBI, this became the only known incident in which a hacker interrupted a major tv broadcast without getting caught
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