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TIL That there are North Korean Labor Camps in Siberia

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4a9o TIL That perceiving time faster or slower than what it is is known as the Kappa Effect.
6EYg8 TIL that 2003 film The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was so bad, it made Sean Connery retire from filmmaking.
R75wl TIL The Molotov cocktail was named in reference to Soviet minister Vyacheslav Molotov, who claimed on state radio that the bombing of Finland was a humanitarian mission to provide food aid to starving Finns. The Finns jokingly dubbed the incendiary device as a drink to go with the food.
N7688 TIL an average cloud weighs over 1 million pounds
M70ma TIL of "gas bag" vehicles developed during the gasoline shortages of the World Wars. They used 'town gas', a by-product of the process of turning coal into cokes.