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TIL Samsung started off in 1938 as a grocery and noodle trading company before jumping into electronics in the 1960s.

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ADmNx TIL the fultograph was able to broadcast pictures to homes via radio in the 1920s. Using the output from the loud speaker socket it darkened an area of sensitized paper on a rotating drum.
0wY8j TIL: Completed in 2007, Moscow now has a whole extra Kremlin. This one's mostly for shopping.
Oo09R TIL Most of the 30 killed in the sinking of the Britannic were dismembered when their lifeboats were pulled into the propellers when the captain attempted to beach the ship. One person survived the propellers- Violet Jessop, who had also survived the sinking of Britannic's sister ship, Titanic.
lo7l7 TIL that 250 men dies of breast cancer in U.S
dxjZ TIL in 1952 Albert Einstein was offered the Presidency of Israel