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TIL that North Korea is the only country in the world with a Shia Muslim mosque but no Sunni Muslim mosques

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BrJL TIL when Steve Jobs accused Bill Gates of stealing from Apple, Gates said, “Well, Steve, I think there’s more than one way of looking at it. I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.”
7PMO TIL that Randall Munroe, the artist of xkcd, was responsible for reddit’s comment sorting algorithm.
eKeb TIL the “Today I Learned” subreddit is regularly exploited by corporate markers to push their agendas
WkPy9 TIL The Brothers Grimm, being from a lower class, were excluded from university admission & tuition aid due to being poor. But upon publishing their 1st volume of 86 folk tales, they received honorary doctorate degrees from universities in Berlin, Marburg, & Wrocław.
GY0dg TIL Astronauts threw a taco party to celebrate their first harvest of seven Hatch peppers grown on the International Space Station, part of a larger experiment in growing fresh fruits and vegetables to supplement the packaged food sent on space missions.