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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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9wrJm TIL on Disneyland’s opening day in 1955, an invitation-only crowd of 15,000 was expected, but thanks to counterfeit tickets, 28,154 entered the gates. A few more even scaled a fence, using a ladder erected by an entrepreneur who charged $5 a head. On the Santa Ana Freeway, there was a 7-mile backup
XEYJr Today I Learned that, on average, 17 meteorites impact the ground or oceans of Earth. Every. Single. Day.
AD8Wn TIL that a coin toss decided that Portland, OR should be named after its namesake in Maine. The other proposition was Boston.
vgkL TIL that in 2010 Microsoft banned a user from Xbox Live for putting Fort Gay (A real location in West Virginia) as his address. Microsoft refused to believe that Fort Gay actually existed, and eventually took an appeal from the towns Mayor David Thompson for the issue to be corrected.
GYKj5 TIL that Randy Johnson, an MLB pitcher known for accidentally hitting and killing a bird with one of his pitches on 3/24/2001, has a dead bird as the logo of his photography company.