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TIL South Korea occasionally blasts KPOP music at North Korea

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ep4Eb TIL Rotationplasty is a surgical procedure where, in case of bone tumor, they remove a child's lower leg, rotate it 180 degree and attach it to a thigh bone in a way that makes an ankle joint serve as a "new knee". It looks like having one leg shorter and rotated back.
LQPld TIL about Langton’s Ant, a simple computer simulation where an "ant" moves on a grid with only two rules, producing thousands of chaotic steps before eventually creating an endless, repeating highway pattern.
GYxbJ TIL in Texas, there is an anti-crime law that states that criminals who intend on committing a crime must give their victims oral or written 24-hours advance notice. They must also include the nature of the crime.
7XdX TIL Mattel sued Aqua for their song “Barbie Girl” but the judge ruled “The parties are advised to chill”
Jdgv TIL A hacker group named UGNazi took down the Papa John’s website because the company “took 2 hours longer than expected to deliver my food.”