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TIL There’s a Little-Known Part of Russian Territory in the Middle of the EU

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D1njY TIL that Samsung is the largest privately-owned company in the world, with its $305 billion revenue equivalent to 17% of South Korea's GDP
YpXKA TIL that the woman who accused 14 y.o. Emmett Till of flirting with her admitted that she lied 62 years later. Till was brutally lynched by the woman’s husband and his cousin based on her accusation. Images of his mutilated body are credited with sparking the Civil Rights movement.
AD0Jn TIL A Japanese word, “Bushusuru,” was coined after George H.W. Bush publicly vomited on the Prime Minister of Japan during a formal state dinner. The word literally means “to do the ‘Bush’ thing, or to vomit in public.”
4lyR TIL Sting took 1 million dollars to perform a private gig for the dictator of Uzbekistan - a man who boiled his enemies alive.
aa6A TIL Mike Tyson has coped with negative emotions throughout his life by caring for pigeons. As a child he suffered bullying & depression (the first punch he ever threw was at a bully that killed one of his birds) & as an adult with his sunk career and death of his 4 year-old daughter.