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TIL it was the 70-year-old financer and the Richest Banker in the country J.P. Morgan who pledged massive amount of personal funds to provide liquidity and stabilize the situation during the Bank Panic of 1907

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4kAVa TIL that there is a role in system of Bosnia and Herzegovina that has the power to remove public officials from office and pass laws, although it's exclusively held by foreigners
W7ERo TIL In 1784 King Louis XVI of France commissioned several scientists to investigate amimal magnetism. One of the scientists was Benjamin Franklin who performed one the first systematic controlled trials and found no evidence of animal magnetism.
6rdX TIL a 61 year old potato farmer won the inaugural Westfield Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon, a distance of 875 kilometres (544 mi). Almost two days faster than the previous record for any run between Sydney and Melbourne.
neaA7 TIL that in 1963, a White civil right activist named William Lewis Moore protested segregation by walking 400 miles,alone, from Tennessee to Mississippi to deliver his own letter to the governor, urging him to accept integration. 2 days after starting, he was found murdered in the side of a highway.
JYxlB TIL that the hermaphroditic animal known as a sea squirt begins its life as a tadpole like creature, until it settles down anus-up in a location for the rest of its life. It will then eat its own brain, disintegrate its nervous system, and fire sperm and eggs into the water to reproduce.