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NXYMe TIL There was once a king who had never been attracted to women, one day, he saw a beautiful beggar and fell in love with her. He brought her to his palace and made her sit on his thrown and then kneeled before her and asked her to be his queen.
gMjr7 TIL Jim Crow was not a real person, but a character played by a white actor performing minstrel routines.
grlAD TIL that in many typefaces rounded or pointed (like O or A) are slightly taller than flat letters (like X or H) to compensate for an optical illusion
wKD7 TIL After 60 odd years, North and South Korea is split linguistically. “I’m fine thanks” in North Korean means “Mind your own Business” in the South.
j6oMR TIL: Vietnam has a few unique monsters, one is the Ma Vú Dài, a lady ghost with long breasts that attacks victims at night to forcefully breastfeed them until they fall unconscious. In the 60s, prisoners in Saigon reported seeing a women with long breasts force feeding cellmates.