https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-democratic-peoples-republic-of-begonias/ Fascinating true stories from science, history, and psychology since 2005 Sun, 06 Sep 2020 04:11:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-democratic-peoples-republic-of-begonias/#comment-72702 Mon, 11 Feb 2019 21:02:24 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?post_type=nugget&p=9111#comment-72702 Oops, thanks for spotting that! It’s now fixed as “Kimilsungia”. I hear that in North Korea, getting those syllables wrong is punishable in ways too horrible to go into here…

]]> https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-democratic-peoples-republic-of-begonias/#comment-72700 Sun, 10 Feb 2019 21:38:16 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?post_type=nugget&p=9111#comment-72700 Fascinating! Just to check, is the earlier flower the “Kimilsungia” or the “Kimsungilia”? The article mentions both, but I suspect it’s the former.

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