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TIL Samsung has a military branch. They’re producing jet engines, robots and howitzers!

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4XXkw TIL that Thad Roberts, an intern at NASA, stole roughly $21 million worth of moon rocks from NASA with the aid of his girlfriend. He loaded a 600 pound safe containing ~101 grams of samples and wheeled it out of the complex, destroying 30 years of the chief scientist’s research in the process.
9dAM TIL Eminem repeated the 9th grade 3 times before dropping out of school
VBdEB TIL of Henry Trigg, a 17th century grocer whose will requested to have his body placed in a coffin in his barn's rafters. Copies of his will were sold, and WWI soldiers later stole his bones. A horse-riding school replaced them with horse bones, explaining that having no bones would lose revenue.
JY1El TIL: The small bow found inside of many hats is a symbolic memorial to past hatters who had died of mercury poisoning
Yp40A TIL about the huge luxury houseboat industry on the massive rice paddy network in Kerala India