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TIL North Korea is the only 'necrocracy' in the world – which means that it is the only country that is still under the rule of a dead leader.

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mnLy TIL we have doodles from an elementary school-aged child from the 13th century - including “battle scenes and drawings of himself and his teacher”
l788B TIL That there are 10 fjords in the United States
p8WyQ TIL that the artificial banana flavoring was based on the Gros Michel: the predominant banana that went extinct in the 60's (replaced by the current less flavorful Cavendish). Today, when you eat something "banana" flavored, you're tasting species of banana that went extinct long ago.
yrGa TIL there is a town in southern California that recently elected a Golden Retriever as their mayor.
KYOn9 TIL after he was fired from his job as embassador, tortured and banished to his farm estate, N.Machiavelli would return home at night, change the dirty clothes he wore for field work and put on his ambassador outfit, just to study in his office, alone, due to how much he missed his job