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TIL Any PCT filed patents are also valid and enforced in North Korea as it ratified the Paris Convention on July 8, 1980.

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GAyPE TIL songwriter Trevor Rabin wrote the entirety of the Yes song "Owner of a Lonely Heart" while sitting on the toilet.
xVOy7 TIL about Käthe Heusermann - assistant to Adolf Hitler's dentist. She was the reason the Soviet intelligence knew Hitler was dead for certain. She was imprisoned for 6 years in Moscow and sent to hard labour in Siberia for 4 years before being allowed to return to East Germany.
8eYVP TIL when infamous fraudster Bernie Madoff died, he was cremated (contrary to Jewish tradition) and his family refused to claim his ashes, so they are currently sitting in a lawyer's office.
yQZ48 TIL that in order to legally busk in the Paris Metro, musicians have to successfully audition before a jury and qualify for one of the 250 to 300 licences handed out.
oB9mA TIL Scientists routinely run naked in -100 degree (F) temperatures. They have learned they can survive about 3 minutes, and breathe through a snorkel that heats up the air so they don't freeze their lungs.