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TIL- Samsung has automated armed sentry guns in Korea's 'de-militarized zone'

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yQa5X TIL that liverpool fc chose nike instead of new balance, even though the money offert was the same, because nike offered lebron, s. williams and drake as marketers for liverpool fc [meaning that the 3 will use social media to promote the club and will wear liverpool fc shirts in public]
DBwg TIL that both Tom Hanks and Danny DeVito almost played Super Mario, while Arnold Schwarzenegger almost played King Koopa
5YPr TIL that Comedy Central only agreed to air the word “shit” uncensored in the South Park episode “It Hits the Fan” (the first South Park to do so) if the word was used an absurdly high number of times. The episode had 200 total shits- 162 spoken, 38 written.
6EJ08 TIL that the Klaxon horn (the very loud "aaaaYOOOGAH" horn found on old cars and Navy ships) was invented by the same guy who invented one of the first electric hearing aids.
QJ1ke TIL that The International Kilogram, a cylinder of a platinum-iridium alloy is exactly 1 kilogram, and is locked in a vault southwest of Paris, that takes 3 keys to open. It has only been taken out on 3 separate occasions since it was created, almost 140 years ago.