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TIL every country has quick dial, easy to remember emergency number EXCEPT North Korea.

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eNA5 TIL a US company makes simulated chicken eggs from vegetable products. Their R&D team has identified 11 plants that have the functional capabilities to replace eggs, and have used this technology to create mayo, cookies, and cookie dough
EgeJp Today I learned that when you see someone else in pain—whether they stub their toe, cry, or even just look sad—your brain lights up in the same areas as if you were experiencing that pain yourself. This incredible phenomenon is due to something called "Mirror Neurons".
oBaMR TIL that executives at McGraw Hill were curious to find out why their accountant was on television racing a Mclaren F1 GTR, chartering Concorde trips and showing up to work in a Ferrari. Turns out he had been embezzling £2.8 million from them the past 5 years since he was recruited!
gMxeA TIL: DeepMind's AlphaStar AI is now a full-blown StarCraft 2 Grandmaster and better than 99.8 percent of players on Battle.net, 'under professionally approved conditions.'
GAeJQ TIL that King Henry VIII’s first living child was a boy named Henry born on New Year’s Day 1511. His Godfather King Louis XI of France gave him a gold cup weighing almost 7 pounds. The child lived only 52 days.