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TIL in 1911, eleven and seven year old brothers rode on horseback from NYC to San Francisco in 62 days

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neMXd TIL Laura Scofield, a Women's Suffrage Advocate wrote this letter 25 years before Women's Right to vote would pass. She did not live to see it.
W07Y TIL that Samsung was originally founded as a 40-employee trading company in 1938. It dealt in groceries produced in and around the city and produced its own noodles.
W7Zo9 TIL about Shockwave, a semi-truck outfitted with three jet engines capable of producing 36,000 horsepower which allowed the truck to complete the quarter-mile in 6.63 seconds. It consumed fuel at a rate equal to 400 gallons per mile (940 liters per km), even more when using the afterburners.
YpNNd TIL: When the 80's He-Man film started going over budget, Cannon's solution was to cut the budget of other films in works in order to finish it. The film most affected was Superman its 35 million budget cut in half. Both films would bomb at the box office and Cannon would fold 7 years later.
loVlB TIL: In Taiwan, today, August 8th is celebrated as Father's Day because in Mandarin, 08/08 has the same pronunciation as the word for father: "Ba Ba"