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TIL Samsung - A leading technology company started out as trading company dealing in dried fish, locally grown groceries and noodles.

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awZQy TIL that it was on September 7, 1905 that the first ever bird strike by an airplane was reported, and by none other than Wilbur Wright, an aviation pioneer, as recorded in his diary. This incident occurred when his aircraft hit a bird over Bread's cornfield near Dayton, Ohio.
N7kWM TIL the first "smartphone" pre-dated the iPhone by 15 years.
Vglp TIL the Croatian fascist group, the Ustaše, butchered hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Croats and Jews with primitive weapons, such as having little children impaled, cutting off women’s breasts, sawing off noses and ears and burned alive. Their crimes even horrified the Nazis.
0DW5 TIL that Wayne Gretzky lost 2 of his 62 records since retiring. He also gained back his record for highest average points per game from Mario Lemieux. Lemieux, who came out of retirement from 2000-2005, lowered his average thus giving the record BACK to Gretzky.