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TIL Swedish Fish are actually from Sweden!

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yebv TIL That North Korea has a zoo which is home to over 5,000 animals, including dogs (which are not permitted as pets due to “health reasons”) and a trained parrot that squawks, in English, “"Long live the Great Leader, Comrade Kim Il-sung!”
D1doP TIL of Pablo EskoBear, a 175lb black bear that died from a drug overdose after he consumed about half his own weight in cocaine. The bear was later stuffed and is now a tourist attraction in Kentucky. He currently has a note around his neck warning: "Don't do drugs"
6YPm TIL nudity in films was originally a French idea, early pioneers believed viewers would enjoy watching women disrobe.
LBMQ TIL that The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is the world’s largest single machine and it crosses the border between Switzerland and France at four points, with most of it in France.
rNVE4 Today I learned Tim Gunn's dad was an FBI agent