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TIL Pornography is largely illegal in South Korea, with the exception of social media, which is a common source of legal pornography there.

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Armw TIL When Joan Crawford died, her long time rival Bette Davis said:“You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good … Joan Crawford is dead. Good.”
J11Q4 TIL the luxury Mercedes Benz G-wagon was first designed and made after a suggestion from the last Shah of Iran.
ep6k6 TIL that in the early '80s the CIA helped facilitate the widespread sale of cocaine in poor L.A. neighborhoods to help finance the covert war against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. The journalist who revealed this later killed himself after a smear campaign.
O9LR TIL the Python programming language was named after Monty Python, not the animal.
dNVB TIL in 1984, the then-Baltimore Colts were moved to Indianapolis in secret in the middle of the night, with 15 moving trucks taking different routes to avoid being seized by the State of Maryland under eminent domain.