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TIL: North Korea used to buy full-page ads in the New York Times

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yVL6e TIL That children who live with unrelated males most commonly their moms' boyfriends or husbands, are almost 50 times more likely to die violently then kids who live with both their biological parents.
L189 TIL there is a clock being built inside a mountain that will keep time in centuries, chime every 1000 years, and last at least 10000 years.
wRv6 TIL of Julie D’Aubigny who was a 17th century bisexual French opera singer and fencing master who fought and won at least ten life-or-death duels, performed nightly shows on the biggest opera stage in the world and once took the Holy Orders just so that she could sneak into a convent and shag a nun.
R7goj TIL that the Allied forces in WWII fell into the same trap along the Appian Way that was set by the Romans for Greek general Pyrrhus 2,200 years before
vjAK TIL that when a google employee dies their spouses receive half pay from the company for 10 years and their children receive 1,000 dollars per month until they’re at least 19