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TIL the Democratic Republic of the Congo built its new National Museum in 2019 with the funding of South Korea. Congolese experts working there are now trained in South Korea instead of by Belgian scientists from the Africa Museum in Brussels

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b9jO9 TIL that rubber, the material, got its name on 1770 when Joseph Priestley noted that a piece was extremely good for rubbing off pencil marks on paper.
VMaBZ TIL Solid Snake from Metal Gear Solid was based on Snake Plissken, John Carpenter's main protagonist from Escape From New York. The similarity between the characters almost landed Hideo Kojima in court.
4L5J TIL Richard Brooker, the first actor to wear the iconic hockey mask in the third Friday the 13th movie, is also responsible for directing Bill Nye the Science Guy.
rX4M TIL There have been 18 incidences of theft or loss of highly enriched uranium and plutonium confirmed by the International Atomic Energy Agency in the last 12 years.
worj7 TIL that George Stanley, the designer of the Canadian flag, received death threats from opponents of his design.