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TIL that Yokohama and Osaka Ikeda have Cup Noodles museum dedicated to Momofuku Ando who invented chicken ramen, world's first instant noodles.

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7rNdL Homesick student Kleon Papadimitriou biked 48 days to make it back home to his family during lockdown!
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npdG TIL that “Third World” countries are not defined by their economy or development. Instead they are all the countries that were neither aligned with the US and its allies (first world) nor the USSR and its allies (second world) during the Cold War.
kWoE TIL that tea parties weren’t invented until the 1830s; which means the 1773 Boston Tea Party wasn’t known by that name until more than 60 years after the event. At the time it was referred to as “the destruction of the tea”.
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