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TIL that a Korean TV show is about a 400 year-old Harvard-educated alien who falls in love with a human woman. ‘My Love From Another Star’ is a huge hit in Korea and elsewhere; Chinese fans were hospitalized for binging on too much fried chicken and beer (the woman character’s favorite food).

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