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TIL North Korea has a water park in Pyongyang

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Y7EZG TIL Albert Einstein received his Nobel Prize for explaining the photoelectric effect, a lesser-known (but still revolutionary) contribution, rather than his groundbreaking theories of relativity.
ZvLv TIL Shakespeare’s plays were so popular that pirated copies were made. Reporters would attend a performance and quickly write down the play’s entire text in shorthand as it was spoken. The pirated copies often had errors due to the reporters making mistakes while writing.
eLBJ TIL Carrie Fisher told her fans: “No matter how I go, I want it reported that I drowned in moonlight, strangled by my own bra.”
LQp7p TIL: Popcorn is thousands of years old. Fossil evidence from Peru suggests that corn was popped as early as 4,700 BC.
0w6Nj TIL about Lou Pearlman, a music producer and con man who managed both the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC, defrauding both bands out of millions. He went on to run one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in history, leaving more than $300 million in debts to investors