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TIL The term “pipe dream” came from people having fantasies from smoking an opium pipe.

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WkEmB Today I learned of Hurdy-Gurdy, a medieval stringed instrument that produces sound by a hand crank-turned, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings.
GYx7G TIL The Daniel K Inouye Solar Telescope captured an image of granular looking convection cells on the surface of the sun, which are each about the size of Texas. Features as small as 30 km can be resolved from the image
xlg5 TIL JFK purchased 1200 Cuban cigars before signing the trade embargo 51 years ago
YpbJZ TIL about “Anti-Japan Tribalism”—a book by professor Lee Young-Hoon— that argues the official history of the ROK is based on false narratives and that a number of South Korean scholars, journalists, activists, and politicians have been active in creating and spreading anti-Japanese sentiments & lies
Z80o4 TIL the character ‘The Crimson Chin’ in Fairly Odd Parents was and still is voiced by Jay Leno