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TIL that due to having similar names, the staff of the Slovak and Slovenian embassies meet at least once a month to exchange wrongly addressed mail

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w4WW TIL Video game players decode HIV gene in 3 weeks that researchers were looking for in 15 years!
xVM1B TIL China has a history of using underage athletes in Gymnastics in the Olympics
wvPY TIL of “kafkatrapping”, a logical fallacy in which someone is accused of possessing a certain trait and their denial is used as evidence that they possess that trait.
Oo6Ze TIL China Runs A High Speed Train From Beijing, China to Lhasa, Tibet, about 1272 miles away, and passes through the highest elevation attained by any train in the world (16,600ft) requiring oxygen to be pumped into the specially built passenger cabins and with a doctor onboard every train
Zx8o TIL the title sequence of Fight Club accurately traces a nerve impulse from the brain’s “fear center” to various affected tissues