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TIL Samsung accounted for 22.4% of South Korea's GDP in 2022.

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6Eynl TIL James Parkinson, the man who Parkinson's disease was named for, was implicated in a plot to assassinate King George III
Lood TIL that the author of ‘Where the Wild Things are’, Maurice Sendak, is gay and had a male partner for 50 years until his partner’s death. Despite this, he never told his parents, and they died still believing he was straight
ZpdBo TIL QB Jared Lorenzen is the heaviest quarterback to have played in the NFL, and has a Super Bowl ring to his name as Eli Mannings' backup. He struggled with his weight most of his life and succumbed to it at age 38 after an injury ended his arena football career and his weight ballooned.
78orZ TIL that Veronica Lake had a pilot's license which she used to fly from Los Angeles to New York when she left her husband Andre DeToth in the airplane she bought for him.
K5g9 TIL in 1986 165,000 people paid Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker $1000 for a lifetime annual weekend pass at the new Heritage USA Christian resort. The park went bankrupt after IRS troubles, and the donors got back $6.54 each.