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TIL John Candy was paid $414 for his role in Home Alone (1990), doing it as a favor for screenwriter John Hughes

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QMnp TIL Ethiopia has 13 months, is still in the year 2005, and celebrates New Years on September 11.
javM TIL that the rightful heir to the North Korean ruling dynasty, Kim Jong-nam, has been living in exile in China since 2001 after traveling to Japan on a forged Dominican Republic passport using a Chinese alias, Pang Xiong, which means “fat bear” in Mandarin, in an attempt to visit Tokyo Disneyland
yYPl TIL there is a pizza place in Alaska that delivers pizzas to remote areas by plane, with no charge for delivery.
Rdx4 TIL Stalin said “Death solves all problems — no man, no problem.”
YpyG TIL that a 14 year old boy from Malawi built a windmill for his home and figured out on his own how to harness the power from the windmill to have electricity and pumping water in his house.