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TIL that North Koreans love foreign movies and TV shows so much that they risk their lives to watch them via smuggled USBs from China

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D1LmV TIL those dramatic scenes where the hero/character passes out from holding/lifting to much weight is actually possible
lEZK TIL Saddam Hussein had an entire Quran written with his blood. Islamic authorities don’t know what to do with it now, as it is a sin to write a Quran with blood and also a sin to destroy a Quran.
9WeD TIL that the FBI assigned a team to Sacha Baron Cohen during the filming of Borat due to numerous reports of a “Middle eastern man traveling the Midwest in an ice cream truck.”
ne16d TIL Family guy ripped a video off Youtube to use in their show without asking the original creator/uploader. Fox promptly claimed the video violated their copyright and had it taken down. Only when the shows creator Seth McFarlane stepped in, the content was reinstated.
rR6Eo TIL about Rocky, a drug sniffing dog for the Vicenza, Italy police force. The German shepherd was well known in the drug world, and when he died prematurely at age 3 the drug dealers sent a letter of condolences along with a bag of hash as a final salute.