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TIL Iggy Pop hated punk

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lLAr TIL that the Korean alphabet, known as Hangul, was introduced by King Sejong in the 1440s to improve literacy. The difficulty of Chinese characters favored privileged aristocrats, whereas Sejong’s phonetic alphabet allowed Koreans of all classes to learn how to read and write
oRRQA TIL There is a hill in rome made up of 80 million broken pots that were discarded after use in shipping.
OGx4Y TIL There's a Federal Railroad Administration which allows you to report when and where trains have blocked a crossing for unreasonable amounts of time.
QJwBd TIL weathervanes point to where the wind is coming FROM, not the direction it’s blowing.
LkBLr TIL Winston Churchill won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953. His most famous work was a six volume memoir about WW2, but he also wrote a science fiction alternate history story about the US Civil War.