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TIL that North Koreans must abide by one of 28 approved haircuts.

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AQM4 TIL that millions of people don’t actually need to use deodorant (esp. East asians) because they have gene (ABCC11) that stops them from producing sweat that attracts bacteria that cause body odour. And there is a simple test to see if you have this gene.
NJkE TIL Scientists at a Radio Telescope spent over twenty years trying to figure out the source of some signal interference, turns out is was their staff room microwave
0xoy TIL Judd Apatow once said, “Basically, my stuff is just John Hughes films only with four-letter words. Nobody made me laugh harder than John Hughes.”
LQOE9 TIL about Bactrian camels, a species native to the steppes of Central Asia. They can withstand temperatures ranging from -30 to +50 Celsius! Their habitat includes arid desert, stony plains, and sand dunes.
WW44 TIL After Hattie McDaniel became the first African-American to win an Academy Award for her role in “Gone with the Wind” she was accused of being an Uncle Tom by the NAACP to which she responded that she would “rather make seven hundred dollars a week playing a maid than seven dollars being one”.