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TIL in the 1980s, a newly-wed wife realized that her husband's family recipe book was actually the first cookbook ever written in the Korean alphabet, written by a noble named Lady Jang in the 1670s titled "Understanding the Taste of Food" (Eumshikdimibang)

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gZQy TIL that Martin Sheen has never officially changed his name and is legally Ramón Estévez. “It’s still Estevez officially. I never changed it officially. I never will. It’s on my driver’s license and passport and everything.”
KOrr6 TIL There are still Greek speaking remnants from ancient times in Southern Italy
JYklV TIL that between 1945 and the early 1990s, approximately 40,000 Brutalist, alien-looking sculptures called Spomeniks were built all over Yugoslavia. Intended as World War II memorials, some are the size of a 15-story building.
yVQ6v TIL that the inflatable pig on the cover of Pink Floyd's album Animals broke loose from its chain tethering during the album photoshoot. The pig floated about 20,000 feet in the air causing commerical planes to land mid-flight. Fittingly, the British Royal Air Force found the pig on a farm.
0dp0j TIL In 2012, a solar Coronal Mass Ejection that might have taken the world 4 to 10 years to recover from missed Earth by about 9 days