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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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GYD5N TIL Richard Klinkhamer's wife "disappeared" in 1991. He then wrote a book on seven ways to kill your spouse. In 2000, new owners of his former home found the skeletal remains of his wife, and in 2001 he was sentenced to 7 years in prison. He was released in 2003 for good behavior.
l7KPV TIL that Sheb Wooley, best known for the 1958 novelty song "The Purple People Eater", also created The Wilhelm Scream.
06dA TIL MAPS is undertaking an eight-year, $18.5 million plan to make MDMA into an FDA-approved prescription medicine by 2021, and is currently the only organization in the world funding clinical trials of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy.
XZbP TIL the Dalai Lama was on the CIA payroll ($180k/yr) from the late 1950’s to 1974.
xxd7 TIL that of 2.9 million female high school athletes, only 3% are cheerleaders, yet cheerleading accounts for nearly 65% of all catastrophic injuries in girls’ high school athletics