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TIL It's illegal in Turkey to insult Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

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XEgXD TIL A specie of jellyfish is named Bazinga inspired from the show The Big Bang Theory
OGx1e TIL in the 1980s, a newly-wed wife realized that her husband's family recipe book was actually the first cookbook ever written in the Korean alphabet, written by a noble named Lady Jang in the 1670s titled "Understanding the Taste of Food" (Eumshikdimibang)
eavb TIL Christian Bale’s stepmother, Gloria Steinham, was a feminist who protested the 1991 publication of the novel, American Psycho, due to its portrayal of violence toward women. In 2000, Bale went on to star as the title character of the novel’s film adaption.
e0DPg TIL Hitler killed his 4 year old German Shepherd because he feared that the Russians would capture and torture her.
mxdZM TIL that during a NASA auction in 1976, an intern called G. George bought 218$ worth of film roll. It turns out that they were original videotape recordings of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Sotheby's has since resold it for about 1.8 million dollars.