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TIL That North Korea is completely blank on Google Maps

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m1aLO TIL the last trading post created by the Hudson Bay Company was founded in 1937
GbY7 TIL the Amazon Rainforest area originally had terrible farming soil, until indigenous people invented a “superdirt” which remains fertile for thousands of years, renews and propagates by itself, and may currently cover as much as 10% of the Amazon basin.
j65an TIL that with a net worth of $500 million, German Shepherd, Gunther IV is the world's richest dog. He inherited his fortune from his father, Gunther III, the previous richest dog in the world.
GlRE TIL that there is a completely unique English dialect spoken only on Tangier Island, Virginia. It is said to be almost the same as when the island was settled in 1686 and can be unintelligible even to native English speakers.
MmGB TIL of Carnufex, a giant ancient crocodile that walked upright on two feet and lived in North Carolina 231 million years ago