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TIL "Have you eaten?" is a common greeting across Asia

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6AZm TIL a British bioengineering company has genetically modified genes in male mosquitoes to pass a ‘suicide gene’ on to its offspring in an effort to reduce Dengue Fever.
R515a TIL that the world's oldest and most prestigious nanny school, Norland College in England, trains nannies in self defense and evasive driving as well as more traditional childcare skills. Jokingly described as "Mary Poppins meets James Bond", some graduates go on to earn six figures.
nWyXb TIL that Emma Gibson, frozen as an embryo in 1992, was born in 2017 to a mother who was born in 1991
ANpno TIL: that Hisayuki Machii, the founder of one of Japan's most notorious Yakuza gangs, was Korean.
X166 TIL that cellphone companies in the USA employ several myths in order to over charge their customers.