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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.

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MEZB TIL In 1943, 10 Norwegian Special Operations Executives successfully sabotaged a plant which could produce materials for German nuclear weapons. To do so, they had to descend a 200m ravine, ford an icy river and climb a steep hill. Afterwards, they had to escape 3000 German soldiers.
QNDk9 TIL: Kazuo Taoka is known as the "Japanese Godfather". He was an orphan who acquired the nickname "Kuma" for his signature attack of clawing eyes. He realized back alley work was high risk low reward, so he founded a legitimate yakuza cargo hauling biz which grew his yakuza to 10,000 members.
N7BdM TIL the only police officer to arrest a sitting President was William H. West, a black Civil War veteran. He arrested President Ulysses S. Grant for speeding on his horse in 1872, for which the President paid a $20 bond.
R7vo9 TIL that NASA has confirmed that the earth is greener than it was 20 years ago due to China's and India's dominates heavy investments in re-plantation.
Lkebr TIL of the Wanggongchang explosion in 17th century China. It killed 20,000 people, released roughly the same amount of energy as the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, and contributed to the eventual fall of the Ming dynasty.