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TIL budae-jiggae (Korean Army Stew) and tteokbokki are banned in North Korea for being South Korean inventions

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wZYM TIL The inspiration for Beavis was a straight A Student who had a similar laugh. He would laugh at everything his extremely hot teacher would say while biting his lip, and scribbling on paper.
MeOpK TIL: The average large pizza from Dominos and Pizza Hut in Japan costs $35. Delivery pizza is considered a luxury.
5WBp TIL that preventing an abort of the Apollo 11 mission has been attributed to the work of Margaret Hamilton, the lead flight software designer for Project Apollo. She was 31 when the lunar module landed on the moon, running her code, and is credited for coining the term “software engineering.”
e0xLJ TIL One of the reasons the Great Wall of China still stands after so many years, is due to a secret binding agent in the mortar: sticky rice.
L4lP TIL The sound of Darth Vader mask’s respirator function is trademarked in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office under Trademark #77419252 and is officially described in the documentation as “The sound of rhythmic mechanical human breathing created by breathing through a scuba tank regulator.”