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TIL that due to lack of fertilizer, North Korean shops once sold (or still selling) human feces

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MelV8 TIL that there is a condition called fatal insomnia where people one day can no longer fall asleep, and eventually die due to this lack of sleep.
P8nL TIL: there is an island where pre-Neolithic people still live. They attack anybody that tries to meet them.
6xPl TIL 14 year old gold medal Olympic gymnast Nadia Comaneci would go back to her home country of Romania only to become the sex slave of Nicu Ceausescu, the son of the dictator of that nation
nWXlB TIL, a guide to London's prostitutes, including ratings of their looks and what sexual acts they performed was published in the 18th century: Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies
Wkjbd TIL many car commercials use a vehicle called the "Mill Blackbird" to film their commercials, and use CGI to make the vehicle look like the car they're advertising.