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TIL Samsung has its own South Korean professional baseball team called the Samsung Lions

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ARAg TIL Brian May, the guitarist from queen, has a PhD in astrophysics and has co-authored 3 research papers
gM5Pb TIL about the 1898 Siege of Baler. During the Philippine revolution a 50 soldiers detachment of the Spanish 2nd Expeditionary Battalion Cazadores managed to survive 337 days in a fortified church, while killing 700 Filipino Revolutionaries and suffering only 17 casualties mostly due to disease.
Y7jGB TIL that there is a black honey bee species named Vulture Bee which derives honey-like substance from rotting meat
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