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TIL as the child of an international lawyer, Jeopardy! “Greatest of All Time” champion and interim host Ken Jennings grew up in South Korea and Singapore. He only began living in the United States permanently upon admission to the University of Washington in the 1990s.

by whatilearned November 30, 2021, 10:16 pm

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TIL Monique Macias, daughter of Equatorial Guinea’s former dictator Francisco Macias, was sent with her mother to spend most of her teens in N. Korea shortly before her father’s execution.

by whatilearned November 21, 2021, 3:20 am

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TIL North Korea has the world’s ninth highest ranked women’s football team

by whatilearned November 20, 2021, 11:45 am

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TIL about Jean baptiste Kim who defected from South korea because his family faced incarceration.After being a french citizen he worked for the North korean authorities for 11 years, and served as the foreign correspondent for North korean newspaper Rodong shinmun.

by whatilearned November 14, 2021, 5:19 pm

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TIL that in South Korea, November 11th is known as “Pepero Day”. It involves the gifting or exchange of Pepero snacks, a line of chocolate-dipped cookie sticks, with the intention of displaying affection for friends and loved ones.

by whatilearned November 11, 2021, 2:37 am

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Unusual series from Korea tries to compete against AMONGUS?

by CopyPastaArchive November 7, 2021, 9:28 pm

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TIL the theory of Peninsular Japonic. Linguists believe a Japonic language was spoken on central & southern parts of the Korean Peninsula. The language supposedly spread to Japan during the Yayoi period migration, while the remaining Japonic went extinct & got replaced by Koreanic-speakers in Korea.

by whatilearned October 29, 2021, 3:08 pm

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TIL after North Korean soldiers killed two members of a work crew that were trimming a tree in the demilitarized zone, America and South Korea launched Operation Paul Bunyan to cut down the tree with the aid of overwhelming force: 813 men, 27 helicopters, a tank. The tree was cut down successfully.

by whatilearned October 23, 2021, 3:29 am

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TIL South Korea considers all of North Korean citizens it’s “own” citizens, so if they are able to escape North Korea, they already have South Korean citizenship.

by whatilearned October 21, 2021, 3:23 am

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TIL that in the DRC, there is a statue of former president Kabila that was built by North Korea. However, the statue’s body and clothes don’t really resemble Kabila’s, and it is likely that North Korea just recycled a statue of Kim Jong-Il and put Kabila’s head on it.

by whatilearned October 17, 2021, 10:48 pm

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TIL of Abdul Qadeer Khan, a nuclear physicist who is known as the father of Pakistan’s atomic weapons program and is seen as a national hero. Internationally, he was regarded as a dangerous nuclear weapons proliferator due to his involvement in the nuclear programs of Iran, Libya and North Korea.

by whatilearned October 14, 2021, 8:04 pm

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TIL that the majority of clothes in North Korea are made from a mix of rocks and alcohol

by whatilearned October 14, 2021, 1:15 pm

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