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TIL that Koreans born on the 31st of December are considered two years old the next day

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gLab TIL in 1995, the company Namco patented “auxiliary games” that play while the main game loads, thus forbid other game titles to have those. The patent expired earlier this year.
d8pd9 TIL that approximately 11% of people have a mental health condition globally.
b95Nj TIL that back in Roman times they used to celebrate the new year in the month of the first harvest after winter, which was March. That makes March the first month of the year, and Sept Oct Nov and Dec indeed the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th months.
lQYB TIL that Alzheimer’s disease is considered by some scientists to be Type 3 diabetes because it results from resistance to insulin in the brain.
dklZ TIL a polar bear is going “insane” in an Argentinian zoo and is not scheduled for relocation, even after another polar bear has died months earlier due to an heat stroke