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TIL that despite the popular belief that SOS stands for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls", it actually doesn't stand for anything. SOS was developed because it was an easy sequence of letters to remember in Morse Code (three dots, three dashes, three dots).

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WkA1B TIL the founder of Hyundai was born to an impoverished family of peasants in what is now North Korea. In 1998, he sent 1001 cows to his hometown in North Korea as a repayment 1000 times over for a cow that he stole in the early 1930s to afford his train ticket to Seoul and escape from poverty.
vgDB TIL of Max Kolbe, a Polish priest and Auschwitz prisoner who volunteered to take another man’s place in a starvation chamber. He lived for 10 days without food or water, and the man whose place he took survived the Holocaust.
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