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TIL That in 2012 a cat named Orlando beat top investment bankers in a year long investment competition, which he chose by throwing his favorite mouse toy at a grid to select companies to invest in

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KO9y9 TIL Christian "Flake" Lorenz, Keyboardist for Rammstein, Was initially reluctant to join the band because he thought they would be "Too Boring"
XEkAD TIL that after 9/11, Martin Scorcese was pressured to remove the Twin Towers seen in the ending of the 2002 movie "Gangs Of New York". Scorsese chose to keep the scene in, saying that "The people in the film ... were part of the creation of that skyline, not the destruction of it."
R5bP8 TIL that the sons of Chang and Eng Bunker, who were the origin of the term "Siamese Twins" for conjoined twins, fought on the Confederate side during the US Civil War. Chang's son Christopher and Eng's son Stephen both fought as Confederate Cavalrymen, in separate units.
LkjpZ TIL that from 1864 to 1870 three countries (Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil) declared war to Paraguay (whos motto is “Victory or Death”). Roughly two-thirds of Paraguay population were killed, including around 90% of its men. That war was called “War of the Triple Alliance”
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