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TIL in 2011 North Korea employed “An army of online gaming hackers” to farm WOW gold in South Korea. The money gained from selling the WOW gold went directly towards North Korea’s nuclear program.

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wxp7 TIL that André The Giant had an operation in 1987 in which his size made it impossible for the anesthesiologist to estimate a dosage via standard methods; consequently, his alcohol tolerance (“it usually takes two liters of vodka just to make me feel warm inside”) was used as a guideline instead.
9lEQ TIL that today, a waist-to-hip ratio of 0.7 is considered most attractive by Indo-Europeans, and that even ancient civilizations’ representations of women most often fell in the 0.6-0.7 range.
oBN9K TIL when Hiroshima was bombed, Tokyo's first indication that Hiroshima was destroyed by a new kind of bomb came 16 hours after the strike and originally thought reports of an explosion was just a rumour.
5YB6n TIL galaxies can have "satellite galaxies" that orbit them like planets orbit stars. The Milky Way has about 50 satellite galaxies.
NmvP TIL that McDonald’s gave out free razors during breakfast hours in the 1970’s.