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TIL: A Chinese farmer studied law for 16 years’ to defeat a corporation dumping hazardous chemical waste near his land

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ZpYGa TIL that Samsung has so many subsidiaries that it also makes guns, tanks, ships, medical equipment, insurance, clothes, cars, and the tallest building in the world.
DNbr TIL girls with absentee fathers go through puberty earlier than their peers
5VWXk TIL that there is actually an 8th continent. & It was discovered in 2017.
EBJd TIL: Scoring a condor is the rarest event in golf. This is normally a hole in one at a par five and only four condors have ever been recorded: