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TIL I can send WhatsApp messages to myself

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a8V10 TIL Some biochemical reactions in human cells would take up to 1 trillion years to complete naturally — about 100 times longer than the lifetime of the universe. Enzymes perform these reactions in 10 milliseconds.
vPKgR TIL of a man in Iraq who hired an online agent to buy a lotto ticket for him in Oregon, and won 6.4 million.
GA6KQ TIL that western philosophy owes a great debt to Arabic philosophers, because by the Middle Ages, many original Ancient Greek texts were lost, and medieval philosophers were only able to access the texts using the translations of earlier Islamic Golden Age philosophers.
m10eE TIL There is a community in Japan that is closely tied with the North Korean regime. They operate 60 of their own schools with portraits of the North Korean leaders in every classroom as well as banks and a university.
eeDJ TIL that European Royal Families had a “Court Jew” to handle finances and negotiate loans since usury was forbidden by the Catholic Church