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TIL a Wikipedia admin once deleted the main page. This resulted in a Wikipedia guidance essay, “Don’t delete the main page.”

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vPv9x TIL An estimated 350,000 Chinese visited North Korean in 2019 and the demographic visiting Pyongyang are between the age of 45 to 60. Many Chinese tell their guides that it is just like how they used to live
wLRbM TIL when a pedophile ring was uncovered in the Pitcairn Islands the islanders tried to declare independence from the UK as a legal defence, in perhaps the only example of a group seeking independence for the freedom to sexually abuse children
eLP4 TIL: Mr Rogers sued the KKK for impersonating him.
MWZb TIL after WWII some Jews faced fines for not having paid rent on their homes while they were incarcerated in concentration camps.
ADZgg TIL that Jack's nude sketch of Rose in the movie Titanic was actually drawn by director James Cameron himself on set.