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TIL That Samsung started as a grocery store.

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jEOQ TIL in 2005, an 8-yr old boy’s 14-yr old female babysitter initiated sexual contact with him and the district attorney filed charges against the child boy, not the teenage girl.
j6egN TIL Hall of Fame QB Bret Favre almost died in a car accident at age 22, less than a mile from his destination. His car flipped three times, was freed after his brother smashed the windows with a golf club, and later had 30in of his small intestines removed by doctors.
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Z8yQv TIL whilst working as a marine-biology teacher in 1986, Stephen Hillenburg was asked to create an educational comic about anthropomorphised sea life. He later adapted the characters within it, such as "Bob the Sponge", into one of the most popular and longest-running children's series of all time.