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TIL The concept of 1st, 2nd & 3rd World country was purely Geopolitical and had nothing to do with its economy.

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GY6LG TIL that on August 16, 1858, Queen Victoria sent a message of approximately 100 words to U.S. President James Buchanan. It took nearly seventeen hours to transmit by Morse code through about 2,500 miles of cable at a depth of often more than two miles.
XElg6 TIL That, in 1979, two East German Families wanted to escape East Germany, and to do that, they made a hot air balloon, got on a hill, and with that balloon they got 2,500 meters into the air, and managed to cross the Iron Curtain into West Germany with a Hot Air Balloon, flying past border defenses
WkNp4 TIL On the Island of Dr. Moreau, Marlon Brando was fed lines through an earpiece which suffered interference from police radios causing him to yell "There's a robbery at Woolworth's!"
R7dA8 TIL that the North Korean Embassy in London is situated within a residential area in a semi-detached seven-bedroom house
78gpr Today I learned that Nika Futterman, the voice of Asajj Ventress from The Clone Wars, was the vocalist saying "Give it to me baby" in the Offspring's 'Pretty Fly for a White Guy'.