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TIL that North Korea formally adopted EMV (chip) debit and credit cards in late 2012, leaving the US the sole remaining holdout country that still hasn’t officially adopted a transition timeline for it.

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4X916 TIL last year, the Indian Air Force fired a million dollar missile at a Pakistani balloon that said 'Happy Birthday' on it.
0xr1 TIL in the 1970s after Boeing fired 63,000 employees in Seattle alone, someone put up this billboard: “Will the last person leaving Seattle - Turn out the lights.”
4kAW6 TIL the white part of the pepper where the seeds are stuck to is called the placenta
j68gE TIL that in 2006, a man named Gregory W. Nemitz legally claimed ownership of asteroid 433 Eros and sent NASA a $20 parking ticket for landing the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft on "his" property.
Oojra TIL that the earths ozone layer is on track to healing completely within 50 years.