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TIL that Swedish diplomat Folke Bernadotte secured the release of over 30,000 prisoners from Nazi concentration camps only to be assassinated by Israeli terrorists

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Y7aXA TIL JP Morgan bailed out banks in 1907 but a severe recession occured anyway. Nelson Aldrich, a powerful senator with close ties to Morgan, led a mission to Europe in 1908 to study the workings of the central banks in England, France and Germany. The Federal Reserve was created a short time later
GkjN TIL the US pays on average 15% more for sugar than the rest of the world do to the Farm Bill. This may also be the reason soft drinks switched over to High Fructose Corn Syrup.
yVQYl TIL that the most serious and gravest Crime in the United Kingdom is High Treason - i.e: disloyalty to the Crown, or any attempts to deprive the Queen of her crown and undermine the line of succession to the throne.
jQlp TIL Elon Musk produced “Thank You For Smoking”
VMy0Z TIL that no place in the continental US has an antipodal point on land. Dig a hole straight through to the other side of the Earth and you will come up in the Southern Indian Ocean. Only the very northern tip of Alaska and the state of Hawaii do; dig from Honolulu and you will surface in Botswana.