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TIL in North Korea the trucks are powered by burning wood.

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oRZrE TIL The NYC Great Cat Massacre: In 1916 the fear that pet cats were responsible for the polio epidemic led to the killing of 72,000 cats and 8,000 dogs in New York City.
vPpw4 TIL that Albert Einstein was not awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on special relativity and energy mass equivalence (which led to the famous equation E=mc^2) but rather for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.
d8YgE TIL Food Babe, Vani Hari believes that if you can't pronounce a chemical name you shouldn't eat it.
Oo56Y TIL Prodigy's video for "Smack My Bitch Up" depicts a night out in London, graphically portraying snorting cocaine, using heroin, drinking and driving, violence, vomiting, vandalism, nudity and a sex scene, all filmed from a first-person perspective . It was banned everywhere.
neYYB TIL That Poll Taxes disenfranchised voters as late as 1964 when the 24th Amendment was finally ratified