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TIL that North Korea have tried to destroy the South Korean loudspeakers -that blast propaganda and K-pop over the border- with artillery. They resorted to shelling the speakers after a North Korean effort to retailliate in kind failed due to the decrepit state of their own soundsystem

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4XYAb TIL: that in some cultures you never shake someone's left hand, or use the left hand to hand anything to anyone, because it's the "dirty hand"...
m1PNx TIL that Willie, a heroic parrot, saved a choking girl by alerting his owner, Megan Howard, who then performed the Heimlich maneuver and rescued her.
PY8Qg TIL that DMT has been found to bind to the sigma-1 receptor, which plays a key role in protecting cells from dying when oxygen is low, making room for the argument that DMT may indeed be released in large quantities during death in a last-gasp attempt to keep our cells alive.
D1QYD TIL that the country with the highest female to male ratio of Primary School enrollment is Iran with a ratio of 1.223
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