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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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J1JNm TIL that the NCAA was originally founded to protect college athletes from the brutality of early college football. In 1904 alone, there were 159 serious injuries and 18 deaths on the field.
xVLwg TIL that a production of The Nutcracker can generate 40 - 45% of annual revenue for major American ballet companies.
5VVOD TIL that a humble Japanese programmer working for Casio has been a central figure in Jamaican reggae, directly credited with the creation of 400+ songs
OKWY TIL that in 2008, Christopher Hitchens, then a supporter of waterboarding as a form of interrogation, was waterboarded, and quickly changed his point of view
GeLE TIL in 1968 a man built an island off the coast of Italy and declared himself the President. He ran a restaurant, a bar, a nightclub, and a post office on the island. The Italian government didn’t like this, seized control of the island, and literally blew it up the next year.