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TIL North Korea has enormous deposits of rare earth metals

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BNnW TIL Australia has a predatory version of the koala, known as Thylarctos plummetus
nejPb TIL Jonathan Hensleigh, the writer of "Die Hard With a Vengeance," was interrogated by the FBI over his screenplay. The plot Hensleigh devised to rob the bank was so plausible, the FBI wanted to know where he got his information.
mWev TIL: Thomas Jefferson argued that because no generation has a right to bind subsequent generations, the Constitution should expire every 19 years.
eBW4 TIL A man was castaway on an uninhabited island for 4 years and 4 months and survived.
VMPAB TIL in the 1880s Lamar Thompson was so disgusted that saloons and brothels were tempting Americans into “vices” and hated the "sinful" behavior of fellow humans who engaged in sex, drinking and going out for “fun” that he invented the roller coaster to distract people from sinning.