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TIL if you ask a Korean “How old are you?” they’ll count from when they were conceived, not born

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PY1EE TIL "the Blight" - a plague that destroyed all plant life in the movie Interstellar - was somewhat based on Raoultella planticola bacterium which in the 1990s was genetically modified to destroy plants and had potential to cause mass extinction
BXyy TIL Legendary cult Chessmaster Misha Tal got up from his deathbed, snuck out of the hospital, beat World #1 Garry Kasparov in a chess tournament, and then went back to the hospital to die.
OWrY TIL that the longest prison sentence ever received was 141,078 years, handed out to Thai national Chamoy Thipyaso for her part in a Ponzi scheme that defrauded 16,000 investors.
oBGwL TIL the parents were conceived as the leads of sitcom Family Ties but positive reaction to Michael J Fox's character saw focus switch to Alex after the fourth episode
OPXY TIL that people, especially the youth, have been perceived by older generations as “ruining” the English language for centuries.