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TIL that the North Korean government operates a chain of restaurants that appear throughout China and Southeast Asia and even Russia. Each restaurant funnels $100k - $300k per year back to the DPRK.

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mwGp TIL in 1998, a group of hackers – identified only by their “hacker names”, including “Kingpin”, “Mudge”, and “Space Rogue” – testified before a U.S. Senate committee. They described how they could take make the internet “unusable for the entire nation” with “just a few packets”.
rRZrw TIL that Daft Punk's last album, RAM, had such a colossal amount of recordings and musical assets that one option was to release a quadruple album. They cut no corner in the most legendary musicians, gear or studios, going as far as recording orchestra parts for nearly all tracks on the album.
eg7k TIL shaving unwanted hair does not make it grow back thicker or darker, one reason we believe this myth is because in young boys it might. But that’s because the shaving may overlap with the timing of natural hormonal fluctuations in his body that are developing his adult facial hair
VBL8G TIL Cleopatra (69 BC - 30 BC) was born closer in time to the TV premiere of "Friends" (1994) than to the construction of the Great Pyramid at Giza ( ca. 2490 BC)
rRBE0 TIL that Pipe Organs need to be tuned like almost every other instrument, a long and laborious process made more complicated by the fact that the body heat of the organ tuner is sufficient to noticeably change the pitch of the pipe.