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TIL that vehicles in North Korea are marked with a star for each 50,000km travelled incident-free.

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VVM0 TIL Reddit founder Alex Ohanian, wrote an open letter to Reddit about stopping their sexist ways. It was titled “dear fellow geeks: WTF”
GY45g TIL about the Akwesasne community, a Mohawk community along the US-Canada border. Part of the main village is Quebec's only exclave and is only accessible by New York.
yZaX TIL the reason a Blu-Ray disc holds 5x more data than a DVD is because a blue laser has a lower wavelength than a red one, which means it can read and write data more precisely, much like writing with a ballpoint pen instead of a crayon.
woXo TIL the slang term for prostitute is believed to have originated from Civil War General Joseph Hooker because he was a hardcore partier with many ladies.
GYk6j TIL that Samoa never had a December 30, 2011 because they moved from the eastern side of the international dateline to the western side on December 29, therefore skipping a day. Employers were still required to pay their staff for December 30 even though it never existed.