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TIL Kim Jong-Il wasn’t born in North Korea, but in the Soviet Union.

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kOlR7 TIL at UC Berkeley, when your PhD dissertation is submitted and approved you get a lollipop.
JY9k1 TIL Sherpa people have a small number of names and children are often called by days of the week. They also give names according to certain virtues. By mistake of the enumerators in Nepal, their nationality was added as a surname. Otherwise, they have no last name.
4jjX TIL that for the Merovingian dynasty (457-751 AD), the power of a king was based on the length of his hair. If a rival shaved the head of a king, then his power would be lost. The man with the longest hair in the kingdom would subsequently inherit the throne.
vP68L TIL that Narendra Dabholkar, an Indian rationalist, who was assassinated by two gunmen, was cremated without any religious rites by his family. His daughter, and not son, lit the pyre, which was a departure from tradition where the son performs this duty.
N71XN TIL in 1986, the 18-year-old Prince of Orange Willem-Alexander participated in the 120 mile long ice skating tour known as 'Elfstedentocht'. He entered under the pseudonym 'W.A. van Buren', and managed to finish the tour that passes 11 historic cities in the Dutch province of Friesland.