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TIL a study suggested playing Portal 2 is better for your brain than brain-training games like Lumosity

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MZaB TIL: Aged 64 and living in Ireland, women gets her baby pic and a letter in post explaining she’s the result of a Nazi experiment …
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8ZEV TIL: The extent of North Koreas personality cult is such that in 2012 a 14-year-old North Korean schoolgirl drowned while attempting to rescue portraits of the two “supreme leaders” from a flood.
od98 TIL that Angkor used far greater amounts of stone than all the Egyptian pyramids combined, and occupied an area greater than Paris. Unlike the Egyptian pyramids, which used stone quarried from only 0.5 km (0.3 mi) away, the entire city of Angkor was built with stone quarried over 35km (22 mi) away