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TIL In South Park’s first season’s, when high-profile celebs offered to be on the show, Parker and Stone purposefully gave them small, non-speaking parts. Jerry Seinfeld withdrew his offer to be on the show when he was given the role of Turkey #2 in the Thanksgiving episode.

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pQdp TIL that in 2013, someone in Chicago placed a $600 million trade 2 milliseconds after the Fed publicly announced they wouldn’t slow bond purchases. The markets skyrocketed and the trader made lots of money. There was one problem though. It would have taken 7 milliseconds for light to get to Chicago.
yQWNV TIL African is extraordinarily genetically diverse. An Ethiopian person will likely have less in common genetically with a Sudanese person than they do with people from other continents.
eQpE TIL India consumes half the world’s whiskey, but the French drink the most per person at 2.15 liters per person annually.
O0aR TIL Ethiopia donated $5000 to earthquake victims in Mexico because Mexico supported Ethiopia when Italy invaded in 1935
LQLLp TIL the world's first hard drive, the IBM 350, was introduced in 1956. It was leased to companies for $37,600/month (adjusted to 2024), weighed one ton, and held 3.75 MB, about the size of a small PDF file.