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TIL about The King of Intergalactic Chic, Larry LeGaspi, who designed the original KISS outfits.

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w7KP TIL Kim Jong-il, Great Leader and film-lover, had South Korea’s most famous actress and her director husband kidnapped and held hostage for eight years in order to force them to make movies he liked.
Med0A TIL In 2002, Yoko Ono bought John Lennon's childhood home in Liverpool & donated it to the National Trust to save it from further demolition and property speculators, restoring it to its 1950s appearance and opening it up to the public.
aw9e9 TIL Japan bombed Oregon twice during WW2, then invited the pilot to visit the town 20 years later.
69o9J TIL that in Korea there is 'secret condom' campaign that disguises itself (as condiments, tea, instant coffee, hot chocolate, etc.) to encourage young people to buy and use condoms due to rising HIV-AIDS rates, and low percent of young people using protection during sex due to social stigma.
5Y4MQ TIL The Vietnam war in Vietnam is called, the American War, or the, Resistance War Against America.