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TIL over 90% of Afghans have never heard of 9/11

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njGB TIL that there are methane ice worms in the depths of the Gulf of Mexico that live off of bacteria that eat the chemicals in the “ice”.
EJWd TIL that the feeling we get when we see something so cuddly that we want to squeeze it actually has a name. It’s called “cute aggression”.
NXb5P TIL there is no time limit that you must wait 24 or 48 hours to report a person as missing, whether he/she is considered missing or a runaway. you don’t have to know the reason why someone is missing, or worry about filing a false report.
OogRX TIL that North Korea have tried to destroy the South Korean loudspeakers -that blast propaganda and K-pop over the border- with artillery. They resorted to shelling the speakers after a North Korean effort to retailliate in kind failed due to the decrepit state of their own soundsystem
5Vlnk TIL how the Song "Chop Suey" got its name. It was originally titled "Suicide", but the avoid controversy the title was changed. "Suey" is "suicide", "chopped" in half => chop suey