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TIL that two companies represent 35 percent of South Korea’s GDP: Samsung (23%) and Hyundai (12%)

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yQPv8 TIL the LSD equivalent of 420 is called 'Bicycle Day' and is celebrated on April 19th. It commemorates the first time LSD's discoverer, Albert Hofmann, purposely took the drug as an experiment and had to be taken home by his lab assistant on a bicycle.
N5lN TIL that after FIJI Water ran an ad joking that it “wasn’t bottled in Cleveland,” the Cleveland Water Department proved that Fiji Water contained the highest levels of arsenic and other contaminants when compared to Cleveland tap water and other bottled brands
JY1NB TIL Beer or wine is not safer to drink than liquor. One 250 ml beer has about the same amount of alcohol as one 100 ml glass of wine, or 30 ml distilled spirit. It is the amount of alcohol consumed that affects a person most, not the type of alcoholic drink
9YmEQ TIL Scientists were able to partially restore function to the legs of a paralyzed rat by implanting asparagus between the severed ends of the spinal cord
Oo6n6 TIL that Bob Marley's song 'War' is almost totally an artistic interpretation of Hailie Selassie's 1963 address to the United Nations.