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TIL about a Korean folktale called The Farting Daughter-in-law or Banggwijaengi myeoneuri. It's about a woman who destroys her husband's house with one of her destructive farts which causes his family to throw her out. They take her back after she knocks fruit off a tree with her farts.

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