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TIL Female North Korean soldiers wear high-heels

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LQN59 TIL that particles in cosmic rays can cause the bits in your computer's RAM to flip states and we have redundant bits to stop this very phenomenon from occurring
wDME TIL: The US Attorney General, at his own discretion, can reschedule Cannabis.
E1wKP TIL that several ancient religions believed cats are exalted souls, companions or guides for humans, that are all-knowing but mute so they cannot influence decisions made by humans.
OoP8X TIL There's a gene that makes cilantro taste like soap. A study by the personal genomics company 23andMe identified a small DNA variation in a cluster of olfactory receptor genes that is strongly associated with the perception of a “soapy” taste in cilantro.
QNMO9 TIL many commonly used statistical methods, such as Student's t-test, were invented by the head brewer at Guiness Brewery for quality control