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

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l7leN TIL the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was one of the largest and most populous countries of 16th to 17th-century Europe, covering an area of almost 1,000,000 square kilometres, and having a multi-ethnic population of almost 12 million. Polish and Latin were the two co-official languages.
DQAkP TIL 37% of the entire US government budget was pension payments to veterans of the Civil War by 1894.
R7kE4 TIL the moon orbits the Earth once every 27.322 days. It also takes approximately 27 days for the moon to rotate once on its axis. As a result, the moon does not seem to be spinning but appears to observers from Earth to be keeping almost perfectly still. Scientists call this synchronous rotation.
Wkg7A TIL that when Michael Jackson granted Weird Al Yankovic permission to do "Fat" (a parody of "Bad"), Jackson allowed him to use the same set built for his own "Badder" video from the Moonwalker film. Yankovic said that Jackson's support helped to gain approval from other artists he wanted to parody.
grgm9 TIL that the Chief Medical and Science Officer of the American Cancer Society is named Dr. William Cance