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TIL in 1953, a North Korean fighter pilot defected to South Korea with his MiG-15 and was rewarded $100,000 from the United States.

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GryE TIL 8% of those who identify as atheists also say they believe in God or a universal spirit, even though the literal definition of “atheist” is “a person who believes that God does not exist”
Y7LLZ TIL that J Bruce Ismay spent the rest of his life after The Titanic, in raising money for sailors, donating over a million pounds in today’s terms of his own money.
XEy9X TIL the Canadian province of Saskatchewan is the world's largest producer of lentils; Canada produces 33% of the world total (and Saskatchewan has over 95% of the national total); the next country is India with 25% of the global production
9Y9d6 TIL that Fredric Baur, inventor of the Pringles can, had (at his request) his ashes interred in one. It was Original flavor.
Xw46 TIL that when Benjamin Franklin died in 1790, he willed the cities of Boston and Philadelphia $4,400 each, but with the stipulation that the money could not be spent for 200 years. By 1990 Boston’s trust was worth over $5 million.