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TIL according to North Korea unicorns exist and there is a grave near a temple in Pyongyang

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YpWd7 TIL Coca-Cola marketing is partly responsible for the modern depiction of Santa Claus. Illustrator Haddon Sundblom drew Santa for a 1931 Coke ad in The Saturday Evening Post. His drawing was inspired by the 1822 poem 'A Visit from St. Nicholas' (commonly called 'Twas the Night Before Christmas').
nemaG TIL during the Vietnam War, the U.S. carried out Operation Popeye, a "cloud-seeding" mission to stimulate clouds in Vietnam to increase rainfall and lengthen the monsoon season. After the operation was declassified in 1974, the United Nations banned the weaponization of weather.
Z9Ea TIL “wet dog” smell is produced when fats in sweat are broken down into volatile organic acids by bacteria and yeasts; when the dog is wet, the acids dissolve in the water, and evaporate in higher concentration–high enough for humans to smell
p8gB8 TIL of tree man syndrome, a rare gene mutation that makes people highly susceptible to HPV and causes severe deformity.
RxJQ TIL multiplayer mode in GoldenEye was added last minute, without the knowledge of Rare and Nintendo