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TIL at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, North Korean and South Korean athletes came together to march as one under the unified banner of ‘Korea’ during the opening ceremony

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mp9y TIL that AOL had volunteer mods that filed a class action lawsuit against AOL, claiming that AOL volunteers performed work equivalent to employees and thus should be compensated according to the Fair Labor Standards Act.
e0kR4 TIL in 1999, the mummified remains of a pregnant Hispanic woman were found in a drum in the crawl space of a house in NY. She was identified as Reyna Marroquín, a woman who’d vanished in 1969. She’d had an affair with her employer. He killed himself before police could properly question him.
QJykp TIL Deer Trail, Colorado tried to pass an ordinance where people can buy drone hunting license that will allow a person to shoot down a drone that is flying over their property.
vL7j TIL the S Pen in the Samsung Galaxy Note devices doesn’t have its own battery. Instead, it makes use of electromagnetic fields radiating from the device itself to power itself via magnets and electromagnetic currents
X9oP TIL that some “scientists” in the 1800’s believed Irish immigrants were ape-like, dog-like, and racially primitive.