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TIL that North Koreans eat 375 calories a day

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OGN6e TIL in 2007, a Siberian tiger named Tatiana escaped a 12.5ft tall enclosure at the San Francisco Zoo, killing one visitor and injuring two others who were later accused of taunting her. The enclosure's wall was lower than the Association of Zoos and Aquariums' recommended minimum height of 16ft 4in.
jNRnR TIL researches at Harvard and Columbia concluded that Sarcasm promotes Creative Thinking because both the expressers and recipients of sarcasm need to overcome the contradiction between the literal and actual meanings of the sarcastic expressions.
eOn5 TIL that the phrase “third world” was coined during the Cold War and refers to any country not involved in the competition of democracy vs communism at the time.
GAxG7 TIL - The first push-button telephone was commercially introduced by Bell Telephone on November 18, 1963. Prior to this phones operated on a rotary system.
W7ZOo TIL Mount Kailash is smaller than Everest but has never been climbed by a human. The untouched mountain is known as ‘kailasa’ in Sanskrit, which roughly translates to mean 'crystal'. In Hinduism, it is said that Shiva sits in lotus position, engaged in deep meditation.