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TIL that the largest stadium in the world, Rŭngnado May First Stadium, is located in Pyongyang, North Korea. In the late 90’s it was used as a venue to publicly burn several army generals that were implicated in an assassination attempt on Kim Jong-Il.

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VNNQ TIL the Green Bay Packers are the only non-profit, community-owned major league professional sports team based in the United States.
XEvYr TIL of Ching Shih. Originally a prostitute who married a pirate, she ended up commanding a fleet of 20,000-40,000 pirates, battling the Portuguese empire, British empire, and Qing Dynasty at various stages. She married her adopted son, had two children with him and died a free woman at age 69.
4XW4g TIL a group of scientists from the University College, London set a new world record for the fastest ever broadband speed at 178Tbps, almost 3 million times faster than the fastest conventional broadband speeds.
KYAv9 TIL that at a party celebrating his candidacy for mayor of New York, author Norman Mailer stabbed his wife twice, nearly killing her. She did not press charges.
awdD9 TIL researchers have observed that the rotation axes of the central supermassive black holes in a sample of quasars are parallel to each other over distances of billions of light-years. The rotation axes of these quasars tend to be aligned with the vast structures in the cosmic web.