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TIL that Samsung is so big that they account for 15% of South Korea’s entire economy

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Y7m6B TIL until their deaths, two men claimed they wrote "Jingle Bell Rock: Bobby Helms, the singer, and Hank Garland, the guitarist. Both said they rewrote the original (bad) song by Joe Beal and Jim Boothe and turned it into a hit. But only Beal and Boothe got writing credits and royalties for it.
npGW TIL: Scotland actually has dolphins, not just any dolphins but the worlds largest bottlenose dolphins.
RGn4 TIL that the US exports to Antarctica are worth 6.51 Million dollars and imports are worth 168 thousand dollars.
wLg66 TIL Hops helps you grow bigger breasts.
8aNrL TIL that Guinness World Records were started by the Guinness Breweries to settle arguments about records debated nightly in pubs throughout Ireland when their managing director got involved in an argument over which was the fastest game bird in Europe, the golden plover or the red grouse.