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TIL While noodles were popularized by Thailand’s government in the 1940s as part of an effort to save rice after a major flood, the first mention of Pad Thai in a cookbook only occurred in the 1960s.

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JYX9j TIL about zip bombs, large files that get compressed down to kilobytes, in order to render a system useless while unpacking them. A well known example is 42.zip, which uses some of the common methods to create a zip bomb, like repetition and nested .zip files.
vOyx TIL Google has an archive of newspapers, with the oldest dating back to August 28, 1738
kJA8m TIL that in 2019, Lachlan Murdoch bought the ‘Chartwell Estate’ for approximately 150 million dollars. The Los Angeles based home served as the exterior shots for the mansion used by the Clampetts on the 1960s tv series ‘The Beverly Hillbillies’.
mxylE TIL The Beatles song Blackbird (solo Paul McCartney) has a tapping that keeps time. The tapping was thought to be a metronome but was in fact Paul's foot keeping time as he played guitar and sang the lyrics.
rNmxW TIL about promession, an unapproved green alternative to embalming where human remains are frozen, vibrated into dust, then freeze-dried.