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TIL that Kim Jong-Il’s birth name is Yuri Irsenovich

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v1arB TIL Richard Nixon once called in staff to help him open an allergy-pill bottle. It was the childproof type of bottle, with instructions saying “Press down while turning.” The cap had teeth marks on it where Nixon had apparently tried to gnaw it open
MenjV TIL that the speed record for a vehicle on rails is no less than 6,416 mph, or Mach 8.4, set by a rocket sled in 2003 at Holloman Air Force Base.
GpeJ TIL in the near future a Respirocyte, an artificial red blood cell, will allow humans to sprint for 15 minutes without a breath or hold their breath for 4 hours underwater
KOY0B TIL that the New York Times put out an editorial in 1922 which claimed that "Several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that Hitler's anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded"
v1eDx TIL that over 10% of Canada’s population are descended from impoverished British children that were sent to work on Canadian farms between 1869 and 1939.