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TIL That North Korea has a zoo which is home to over 5,000 animals, including dogs (which are not permitted as pets due to “health reasons”) and a trained parrot that squawks, in English, “"Long live the Great Leader, Comrade Kim Il-sung!”

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yZMV TIL Astronaut Michael Collin’s secret fear was that he had to return to Earth alone, leaving Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stranded on the moon. He sometimes thought it would be better to not have that option.
69VQl TIL that the US passed a law in 2002 that authorizes the US Armed Forces to invade the city of The Hague, land of the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands, in case of arrest of any US official by the International Court.
Elmd TIL that, according to the memoir of a former slave, First Lady Dolley Madison did not save the Lansdowne portrait of George Washington from the British burning it during the War of 1812. Rather, a Frenchman and a gardener saved it, while Dolley just ran off with silver.
YpVVd TIL The Scunthorpe Problem. Automatic profanity filters on the Internet see banned words inside other words and create problems for users. It is named after an incident in 1996 in which AOL's filter prevented Scunthorpe residents from creating accounts due to the unfortunate substring it contains.
xVmG0 TIL that after the devastating volcanic eruption on Whakaari last year in which 21 died and 26 were injured, New Zealand ordered 1.2 million cm of human skin from the US to treat burn victims