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The entire North Korean internet has only 28 websites. And is it a dull internet. There's a cooking website, a film site, a flight ticket site, a social sciences website, some educational sites, a North Korean Tourism board webpage and news agencies. There's also a social network called "Friend"

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mxX7p TIL that the Where’s Waldo book series was released with different names internationally. In Britain you were looking for Wally, Germans searched for tiny Walter, the French scoured the pages for petite Charlie, and if you were a young South African you tried to spot a little Willie.
GAePQ TIL that Obsidian receives no royalties from Fallout: New Vegas because they signed a contract with Bethesda stipulating that they would only do so if the game matched or exceeded an 85 rating on Metacritic. Fallout: New Vegas received an 84 rating.
DDvJ TIL that when snakes slither, they’re actually lifting parts of their body off the ground a tiny amount, and are effectively “walking” on their coils. Even accounting for this, mathematical models of snake movement can only account for ~90% of their top speed, the final ~10% being a mystery
kJAke TIL Krystyna Skarbek, sometimes referred to as "Greatest female spy of WWII" was the first female agent of the British to serve in the field and the longest-serving of all Britain's wartime women agents. Abandoned by the British after WW2 she had to fight for recognition and British citizenship.
J1Oj4 TIL Plants also use photosynthetic pigments that are not green. Most of the time we can’t see these other pigments because their colors get overpowered by the green color pigments.⁠