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TIL blue jeans are illegal in North Korea because they are a symbol of American imperialism.

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EgdKp TIL that God killed a man because he refused to impregnate his dead brother's wife.
yQBbV TIL about Sister Mary Kenneth Keller, a nun who is one of the two people to first receive a doctorate in computer science and helped invent BASIC
1aeXD TIL a group of native Americans occupied Alcatraz for 14 months before being forcibly removed by the federal government.
Opv4 TIL that teens are more likely to engage in risky behavior when they are in a group than when they are alone, but having just one slightly older adult in the group decreases the risk-taking tendencies.
n6N7 TIL in 1931 the Soviets attempted to battle illiteracy using erotic picture alphabet books.