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TIL The Korean alphabet can be learned in about 15 minutes and is brilliantly simple.

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17d TIL Michael Jackson cast real gang members for the Beat It music video and reformed them in the process
D1NQp TIL Concorde flew so high passengers received twice the dose of radiation from flying in a conventional aircraft, which was believed to increase cancer risk. The flight deck contained a radiometer so they could descend in case of a solar storm.
DQvar TIL cloud seeding is weather modification that changes the amount or type of precipitation
7reXX TIL about the Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic. It is the only 'sea' with no land borders but instead is surrounded by ocean currents. It is known for being incredibly clear and full of a particular floating seaweed
erv6 TIL that in the Siberian wilderness lives a woman named Agafia Laikov, a 70 old woman who is the last survivor of a ultra orthodox sect that fled Stalins prosecution and had no contact with outsiders for 40 years, not hearing about world war2 until the 1980’s