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TIL Matrix's iconic green code isn't complicated algorithm but Japanese shushi recipes.

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mx6jv TIL the vocal effect used in the song Zombie by the Cranberries is known as 'keening'. This is a wailing sound used in Ireland to mourn the dead at funerals.
G0GE TIL that despite constituting less than 0.1% of the prison population, the Aryan Brotherhood is responsible for 18-25% of prison murders.
0wwnL Hard to know, says Will Harcourt- Smith, an expert on early-human fossils at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
QJa6a TIL about Skateistan, an organization in Afghanistan dedicated to young people's education and skating. 50 percent of the children skating are girls because Afghanistan culture views it as a toy rather than a sport.
RZx7 TIL when Eddie Murphy was on SNL in the early 80s, other cast members often had to go downstairs after shows to catch a cab for him because no cab drivers would stop for a young black man late at night.