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TIL Finland is the only country in the world with regulated 10-month emergency supply of critical medical equipment, medicine, energy and more

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NXEPJ TIL How digital payments work, and god its complex.
WkwnN TIL Amway, the infamously successful MLM company, its Chinese ‘sale reps’ were so toxic that its name in Chinese, AN LI, has entered the vernacular to mean to “promote heavily” or to “be brainwashed.”
xdN0 TIL a plane was grounded after a professor was mistook doing math and differential equations for designing a bomb.
Y7x4x TIL a hearing test for human babies was developed based on a study on how owls hear. The pupils in both owls and humans dilate when a new sound is heard
ZxOR TIL Shirley Phelps-Roper (Westboro Baptist Church) is banned from entering the UK for “fostering extremism or hatred”.