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TIL no one knows what Algeria’s intelligence chief Mohamed Mediène, reportedly the most powerful man in the country, looks like - no clear public photo of him exists

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AD6Ag TIL there is an international standard for writing the date called ISO 8601, that uses the format YYYY-MM-DD. Although it has been around since 1988, very few countries actually use it.
dDa1K TIL that in Finland the title of the movie "The Shawshank Redemption" is changed/localized as "Rita Hayworth - the key to escape"
WRad TIL the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the WHO, the U.K. Royal Society, the French Academy of Sciences, and the EC have all concluded that GMO crops pose NO risk to human health. No case of human illness or allergy has ever been directly attributed to genetically modified crops.
jyNX TIL the English word “window” comes from the old Norse word “vindagua”, literally “wind eye”.
vP8yL TIL the only scientific paper ever published by Bill Gates was a possible solution to a mathematical problem about pancake flipping.