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TIL that defectors from North Korea cannot change their mind: South Korea won't let them go back home, will arrest them if they try

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neLlW TIL trader Andrew Myrick was found dead with grass stuffed in his mouth and buttocks after refusing to sell food to Dakota people.
d8d9d TIL that Charlie Chaplin's first speaking role was the last 5 minutes of The Great Dictator, a parody film about Hitler. It was banned in Germany and its supporting countries during WWll.
jNN0n TIL a director of the movie 'Airplane!' spent $60,000 on 3 horses over ~4 years for a joke; "All Pink", "Ol Pink", and "Awl Pink". He instructed the jockey not to win, but to run as close to the inside rail as possible so the track announcer would have to call "...and it's All Pink on the inside!"
E15wW TIL The Russian Empire spanned into Alaska, Northern California, and parts of Hawaii before selling its colonial possessions to the US in 1867.
4nD6 TIL Charles Cros invented both a method of colour photography and the phonograph. While Cros submitted his ideas to the French Academy of Sciences first, he never managed to patent them first.