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TIL in 2012 a 14 year old North Korean schoolgirl drowned in a flood trying to save portraits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.

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4X09g TIL of the Californias. There are two more states with the name California in Mexico, and together along with the U.S. state of California, they comprise the Californias.
ngd9 TIL that the Ancient Athenian historian and general Thucydides (460-400 BCE) was the first to record the connection between earthquakes and tsunamis
v1lej TIL that the 3rd generation Ford Mustang was produced from 1978-1993, and during a period of slumping sales in the 80s was almost replaced with a Ford Probe.
mxolE TIL after high school senior Allison Closs dressed up a cardboard cutout of Danny DeVito to go with her to prom, DeVito returned the favor by bringing a cardboard cutout of Closs to the set of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
KeL6 TIL that Google has invested over $500 million in a secretive startup company called Magic Leap, who aims to release retinal display VR devices.