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TIL The Shenzhen stock exchange takes a lunch break.

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MWOm TIL the “ALS Ice Bucket Challenge” that swept the Internet in 2014 raised $115 million, of which 67% went to research, 20% to patient and community services, and 9% to public and professional education. In addition, the ALS Association has since tripled its annual budget for research.
p8LDb TIL despite modern connotations of death as evil, the Greek god Hades was actually more altruistically inclined. Very few individual aspects of his personality were recorded, as Greeks refrained from giving him much thought to avoid attracting his attention.
yAbl TIL that all Sikh places of worship serve free meals for all visitors, regardless of religious, regional, cultural, racial, caste, or class affiliations.
M71ZB TIL that in 1957, Congress voted to de-authorize Fossil Cycad National Monument in South Dakota because the site became devoid of fossils due to pillaging and they were no longer able to justify it's existence as a unit of the NPS.
b6JN9 TIL Lyndon Baines Johnson was the last US President (as of 18/11/23) to die who was from the Democratic Party, January 22, 1973, 50 years ago.