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

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lo4r1 TIL the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova won multiple elections, forming a majority government from 2001 to 2009. Communists rarely achieve peaceful transfers of power in multiparty democracies; Moldova is the only European state to be governed by communists since the fall of the USSR.
M9L7 TIL a neuroscientist plans to perform the world’s first brain transplant using a cryogenically frozen brain and a donor body
Menkm TIL that the "gas pedal" (accelerator) on modern car engines actually first controls the amount of airflow, and then the ECU decides how much gas/petrol is injected.
wYp7 TIL “The Janitor” character from the hit TV show Scrubs was meant to be a figment of JD’s imagination for the first two seasons in case the show needed a plot twist for a sudden cancellation.
OGAMR TIL: In China, Mei Nü, or "Nowhere girls" refer to women who have money, no job, no education, no prospects, no looks, no friends, and no sophistication. The causes have linked to familial trauma or over pampering and spoiled leading to difficulties finding employment.