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TIL President Park Chung Hee was responsible in large part for South Korea’s “economic miracle”; the programs he initiated gave his country one of the fastest-growing economies in the world during his 18 year rule

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oR5Y TIL in 1980, CEO’s of the largest companies made 42x more than the average worker. Today they make 380x more.
XK6X TIL that during World War 2, the British captured Germans and put them in a bugged mansion where they served them wine and food and thus they were able to gather important intelligence from casual conversations between the ‘prisoners’ that helped them greatly win the war