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TIL Samsung is also a full time weapons manufacturer
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n0v7
TIL Ellis Island was man made using the earth removed from under New York City while clearing space for the subway system.
e0XJ6
TIL the date on which Easter falls is based on the moon. It's always on the Sunday after the first full moon of the spring equinox. If the first full moon happens to be on a Sunday, then Easter is celebrated on the following Sunday.
MLOW
TIL that in 2011, China aired footage of an Air Force training exercise on China Central Television. They were actually just playing clips from the movie Top Gun.
rBDx
TIL around 1054 AD, a bright star appeared in the sky that Chinese astronomers could see in broad daylight for 23 straight days. It was not until almost 900 years later that Dutch astronomer Jan Oort identified that starburst as a supernovae in its remnant form… the Crab Nebula.
wRN7
TIL the world’s longest place name is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, “The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the slider, climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his nose flute to his loved one”.