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TIL Samsung’s chairman went on a three day rant to his hundreds of executives in a German hotel conference room. Samsung took his speech, turned it into a book about management and used it as its guiding principles from there on in.

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D1Rde TIL about the Wittmoor bog trackway, two historic corduroy (wooden log) roads, discovered in 1898 in Hamburg, Germany. Dating of the logs used to construct the road reveal they were cut down in 330 AD during the Roman Empire.
OlYY TIL: on August 14 1945, more than 1,000 Japanese officers raided the Imperial palace to destroy the recording of the Emperor’s speech of surrender. Confused by the layout of the palace, the rebels never found the recording. It was later smuggled outside in basket of women’s underwear for broadcast.
wLxv8 TIL George Clooney's first starring role was in "the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" called the "worst film ever made" though now considered a cult schlock classic
R58D6 TIL Columbine shooter Eric Harris was Rejected by the Marines 5 days before the Attack.
lo5P5 TIL in Scotland and Ireland, 29 February in a leap year is said to be the one day when a woman can propose to her partner. Finland has the same custom, with the addition that a man rejecting such a proposal was expected to buy his suitor enough cloth for a skirt as compensation.