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TIL No one really knows where strawberries got their name

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v1n64 TIL that under Kim Il-Sung in 1956, North Korea adopted a national policy of self sufficiency named 'Juche'. By the end of his term North Korea had it's own textile industry built around a locally sourced material named Vinylon and had one of the lowest petroleum dependency rates globally.
MenMK TIL the inventor of band aids made them because his wife cut and burned herself when see cooked
dDLo7 TIL Julian Lennon had to buy back the letters he wrote to his father, John Lennon, at an auction because Yoko Ono wouldn’t give them to him.
eYok TIL that there are only six places in world without Mosquitos Iceland ,New Caledonia ,French Polynesia,The Seychelles,Antarctica,Faroe Islands
DQoLD TIL in the 15th and 16th centuries, the average person in France ate between 1.5 and 2.5 pounds of bread each day. While bread made up most of the poor's diet, the rich also enjoyed meat and an additional two liters of wine per day.