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TIL Bush and Reagan argued for open borders with Mexico. Reagan scoffed at the idea of a wall.

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9Y6WB TIL The company Samsung accounts for 15% of South Korea's entire economy, and that South Koreans often live in Samsung owned apartment buildings, can get treatment from Samsung-owned medical centers, go to Samsung universities, and even end up at a Samsung funeral parlor when they die.
RrP8 TIL that Ancient Greek scientist Eratosthenes used nothing more than shadows, geometry, and a dude he hired to pace out the distance between two cities to determine that the earth was curved, and roughly 40 thousand kilometers in circumference, and he was right.
5YAvP TIL the Central High School of Philadelphia is the only high school in America that can grant Bachelor's degrees to its students.
0wQnR TIL in 2003 some largely unkown online poker player came out of nowhere to win the 2003 World Series of Poker and win 2.5$. His real name was 'Christopher Moneymaker.' His win was said to revolutionize poker, and caused a great boom in popularity, called 'The Moneymaker Effect'
QGbL TIL that porn star Aurora Snow is a full-time writer with a catalogue of articles on TheDailyBeast