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TIL North Korea is more accessible to foreign journalists than Tibet is

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AK9a TIL an Australian research institute ran a four-month study “to answer the age old question, ‘Where have all the bloody teaspoons gone?’”. Results: 80% of the teaspoons in the study disappeared, with the half life of the teaspoons calculated at 81 days
d8G7B TIL of the Sony rootkit scandal: In 2005, Sony shipped 22,000,000 CDs which, when inserted into a Windows computer, installed unn-removable and highly invasive malware. The software hid from the user, prevented all CDs from being copied, and sent listening history to Sony.
79yX TIL Madonna attended a performance of ‘Hamilton’ in New York, but she was not invited backstage by Lin-Manuel Miranda afterwards because she was texting during the show.
R554a TIL that it has been scientifically proven that you actually catch more flies with vinegar than you do with honey.
6XeY TIL McDonald’s feeds 68 million people per day, that’s about 1 percent of the world’s population