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TIL The company Samsung accounts for 15% of South Korea's entire economy, and that South Koreans often live in Samsung owned apartment buildings, can get treatment from Samsung-owned medical centers, go to Samsung universities, and even end up at a Samsung funeral parlor when they die.

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Rorj TIL There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover the entire land mass of North and South America to a depth of 30 centimetres (12 in).
k8n1 TIL that pirate Benjamin Hornigold once attacked a ship just to take their hats.
6PV8 TIL that in Colorado, medical marijuana dispensaries outnumber Starbucks locations 3 to 1
YJKd TIL that influential blues musician Lead Belly was released early from prison after killing a man due to the fact that his music impressed the Louisiana governor so much.
16vl4 TIL There are fossilized plants in Greenland under 1.4 km of ice. At the bottom of a 1.4 km core sample, which was taken in 1966 at Camp Century, researchers found "well-preserved fossil plants and biomolecules," which means that the massive sheet melted and reformed at least once in the last millio