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TIL although Vietnam and China share the same calendar, the one-hour timezone difference can lead to occasional mismatches. Typically, this results in only a one-day disparity, but in 1985, the difference was so pronounced that Vietnam's Lunar New Year occurred a full month earlier than in China

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5YMDQ TIL An instrumental version of the song "Sukiyaki", a story of a man who looks up and whistles while he is walking so that his tears will not fall, was played by NASA over the radio for the Gemini VII astronauts as mood music, thereby becoming one of the first pieces of music sent to humans in space
VMEXD TIL that the 1983 'Inspector Gadget' TV series is the first animated television series to be presented in stereo sound.
pYGPN TIL Ricky Gervais was the lead singer of a new wave band in the early 1980s. Unbeknownst to him one of his singles became a multi-decade smash that is still played regularly on the radio and proms in the Philippines
XmYr TIL there is a Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with gold called Kintsugi or Kintsukuroi. The style embraces the flaws and imperfections of the artifact as well as highlights them.
KOBb9 TIL Products made in Japan were ridiculed and thought to be low quality until 1950 when The New York Times reported the excellence of Nikon cameras during the Korean war with the headline "Japanese camera"