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TIL North Korea’s literacy rate is 100%, according to the CIA

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696eQ TIL about Barry Keenan who became the youngest member of the LA Stock Exchange at 21, got addicted to painkillers and went broke, kidnapped Frank Sinatra's son and was sentenced to life in prison, got released early, and died a real-estate millionaire
6E1Rw TIL Winston Churchill and Princess Diana were from the same aristocratic family, the Spencers. Churchill's last name was officially Spencer-Churchill.
v1GgB TIL Typhoid Mary is the first person in the United States identified as an asymptomatic carrier of the pathogen associated with typhoid fever. She was presumed to have infected 51 people, three of whom died, over the course of her career as a cook.
JY5X8 TIL that Idaho does not have a governor's mansion. The business tycoon J.R. Simplot donated his mansion to the state, but the cost of lawn maintenance depleted state funds and the state eventually gave it back to the Simplot Family.
WZPN TIL a kid dying in the Make a Wish Foundation asked for a bridge to be painted turquoise so it was… and birds keep dying by flying into it thinking it’s sky.