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TIL the 14th Dalai Lama (currently 64 Years old) will decide whether or not to reincarnate when he turns 90 - he could be the last Dalai Lama

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6EmAW TIL about the Pochonbo Electronic Ensamble, a North Korean orchestra that performs folk and revolutionary (DPRK propaganda) music
BgLby TIL that the act of throwing someone out of a window is called "Defenestration".
E1Xdx TIL the United States Space Command asked Bill Nye to create a video to educate their personnel on the facts about EMPs as opposed to how they're depicted in pop culture. The video is not available to the general public.
jN1yX TIL that in the original Pinocchio novel, Pinocchio spends several months as a donkey, performing in a circus until he breaks his leg, gets sold, and is drowned in the ocean for his leather. The puppet inside survives, trapped in the dead donkey form until a school of fish eats away the flesh.
VbMk TIL during WW2 the British maintained an entirely fictional army, the 4th Army, that they successfully used to draw German forces away from invasion targets on multiple occasions, including the Normandy landings