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TIL there's a North Korean international restaurant chain named "Pyongyang"

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mLAx TIL For years, James Randi (nee Zwinge) wrote everyday “I, Randall Zwinge, will die today” along with the date and his signature on a card he carried in his wallet. He hoped in the event of his untimely death, he would be credited with having predicted it.
j6nBa TIL that when designing the Hewlett-Packard 9100A desktop calculator, Bill Hewlett insisted that it be small enough to fit on his desk's typewriter stand. The prototype was slightly too large. A HP carpenter secretly modified the desk so the calculator would fit.
P16G TIL that American Indians called themselves “red” and Chinese people called themselves “yellow” long before they encountered Europeans. [pdf]
OAyg TIL That a sniper taking a shot at a target behind glass has a very low probability of success. This was one of the reasons why the Sydney gunman was not shot through the glass storefront.
gM1pb TIL about Pando,the largest (6 million kilograms) and one of the oldest (~80,000 years old) organisms on earth. Because quaking aspen trees reproduce better through suckering than seeding, the 106 acre grove of quaking aspens in south central Utah is a single organism with shared genetic code.