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TIL: Sweden sold 1000 Volvo 144 cars and some other items to North Korea in the 1970s. North Korea never paid. North Korea still owes 2.2 billion Swedish kronor (234 million euros) to Sweden from these imports.

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rRpZe TIL: in 1978, 2,300 students tried to set a WR for the largest tug of war game. Instead, disaster ensued. The 2,000ft long braided nylon rope snapped, recoiling several thousand pounds of stored energy. Nearly 200 students lay wounded, 5 with severed fingertips, hundreds more faced 2nd degree burns.
0wyD1 TIL after objections from National Conference of Catholic Bishops, the submarine SSN-705 was renamed USS City Of Corpus Christi to better reflect the ship honoring the city in Texas as opposed to the Body of Christ.
LQEE0 TIL Whales weaponize barnacles, making the parasite a symbiote
44Lb TIL that Wikipedia had to ban IP’s from Congress to stop them from changing each other’s entries.
aoxL TIL An Indian flight attendant saved American lives on a hijacked Pan Am flight by hiding their passports under seat cushions. She died while protecting children from gunfire