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TIL that in North Korea there is little stigma attached to using meth. “If you go to somebody’s house it is a polite way to greet somebody by offering them a sniff” said one North Korean.

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LkAym TIL There are more ways to arrange a deck of cards than there are atoms on Earth
6E7BW TIL in 2012 a 22-year-old man on a business trip sent a wrong-number text to a woman 30 years older; she replied that she'd like to hang out anyway. They went to a concert together, started dating, got married, and in 2019 she needed a kidney transplant and he donated his kidney to her.
p8GRZ This photograph was taken with a simple 35 mm point-and-shoot camera in 1989 by the STS-29 crew aboard the space shuttle Discovery.
l7195 TIL that the largest far-right ultra-nationalist organization in Germany is the Turkish Grey Wolves.
VMKD TIL that in Islamic Art, prophets look like they are on fire - flames are used instead of the ring halos in Western art.