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Short answer: You’re less distracted by your native tongue.
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D15bj
TIL North Korea filmed a movie in Japan in 1985, aimed at showing the oppression of Koreans in Japan. North Koreans, instead, drew the conclusion that Koreans were better off in Japan
Z1pR
TIL Caltech students snuck into two fairs at MIT for the prospective freshmen and handed out T-shirts that were packaged so that “MIT” was on the front, but on the back were the words “because not everybody can go to Caltech” were hidden until the package was opened
YpMvr
TIL all chaps are by definition assless chaps
BgevL
TIL Yaeko Taguchi, a 22-year-old Japanese mother of two, was abducted by North Korea in 1978 after leaving her kids at daycare. Forced to teach Japanese to spy Kim Hyon-hui, later involved in the Korean Air Flight 858 bombing, Kim said Taguchi often wept for her children. Her fate remains unknown.
pYYPO
TIL in 1997 scientists successfully turned light into matter and antimatter