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

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k56m TIL that 1 American consumes the same amount of resources as 32 Kenyans per year.
RpR9 TIL Apollo 13 holds the absolute altitude record for a manned spacecraft, reaching a distance of 400,171 kilometers (248,655 mi) from Earth on 7:21 pm EST, April 14, 1970
mxe0y TIL of John Nash ( Portrayed by Russell Crowe in movie 'A Beautiful Mind') rejection of a long standing 2 century Economic Theory by Adam Smith. It lead him to win the Nobel Prize in 1994 for his own Game Theory. He got the idea with his friends in a bar with 4 average brunette & 1 pretty blonde.
Yp14P TIL Supper isn't a folksy word for dinner but a 4th meal.
KXm4 TIL that after reading the script to Schindler’s List, composer John Williams said to Spielberg “You need a better composer” to which Spielberg replied “I know, but they’re all dead”.