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TIL South Korean Government funded an online troll group to spread Pro-South Korean viewpoints on the internet

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WkXRB TIL that Al Roker holds the world record for the longest uninterrupted live TV weather report: 34 hours, at NBC Studios in New York from November 12 to 14, 2014.
e0Dn5 TIL John Babbacombe Lee was imprisoned (with weak evidence) for the murder of his employer in 1884 and was set to hang on February 21st, 1885. Though being carefully tested, the trapdoor of the gallows malfunctioned three times, resulting in John's freedom due to, "suspected divine intervention."
k8LW TIL The amount of alcohol that evaporates from whiskey casks during maturation is called the Angels share
v1nJD TIL research found that 94% of British people said they had conversed about the weather in the past six hours, and 38% said they had in the past 60 minutes. This means at any moment in the UK, a third of the population is either talking about the weather, has already done so or are about to do so.
rNKme TIL that grandma killer whales increase the survival of the pack by letting their daughters mate while taking care of their grandoffspring