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TIL: Most countries don’t actually rely on credit scores

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pY5r8 TIL that a Vocaloid songwriter and musician attempted to murder his girlfriend on May 31st, 2024
kOyY4 TIL in a 2010 Japanese study of more than 95,000 cases of CPR, researchers found that only 8 percent of patients survived more than 1 month. Only about 3 percent could lead a mostly normal life. 3 percent were in a vegetative state, and 2 percent were alive but had a “poor outcome”.
LkDYr TIL that in the American Civil War, most battles had two names. The North generally named battles after natural features while the South named based on man-made landmarks/towns near battle. The Northern defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run was a Southern victory at the First Battle of Manassas.
Q6mM TIL Chinese tourists taking boat tours in North Korea purchase small bags of bread and biscuits and throw them on shore for North Koreans to pick up and eat, like at a zoo
56Qn TIL a 3rd grade teacher ran an experiment with her class after the assassination of Martin Luther King where she got kids to discriminate against each other on the basis of eye color