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TIL K-Pop Has Become a Battleground for Political Ideologies

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BrbAD TIL At 65 Stephen Hawking fulfilled his dream and did a backflip in zero gravity
j6yAR TIL that in the Victorian period arsenic colours (which could and did kill) were used to dye consumer goods, from food coloring to baby carriages.
law5 TIL the first recorded mention of whiskey is from an Irishman in 1405 dying of alcohol poisoning during Christmas.
VB0gk TIL that the term 'spinster' derives from the profession of spinning and threading yarn in the 1300s, one of the few jobs available to lower-status, unmarried women -- and this term carried no stigma initially
7rlDP TIL In 1994 Microsoft's Bill Gates, whose fortune is estimated at nearly $7 billion, bought out all the available rooms at the 250-room hotel to keep media from staying there and reportedly hired all the helicopters on Maui to keep photographers from flying over the wedding.