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TIL Pakistan's biggest company is its Army - which sells everything from cereal boxes to marriage venues

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E1KW7 TIL that for thousands of years, glue has been made by melting dead horses. This practice, although now less frequently, still happens to this day.
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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.
Zpyjo TIL that for six generations, from 1688 to 1840, members of the Sanson family were the executioners in Paris. Charles-Henri Sanson performed 2,918 executions, including that of Louis XVI, and his son Henri executed Marie-Antoinette.
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