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TIL different metals make distinct patterns of sparks when struck

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W7Bk4 TIL from around the 12th Century until about 200 years ago, sticks, called tally sticks, were used to record large financial transactions. This is the origin of the word “stock” (as in trading stocks) and lead to the burning down of the Palace of Westminster in 1834.
PYrMw TIL about Joseph Jagger, the man who won 7.5 million dollars in Monte Carlo because he knew by industry how roulette wheels were rigged.
XEpnQ TIL a 71 year old man from Palm Beach, Florida tied a gun to a weather balloon, inflated it, then shot himself to death... successfully faking his own murder
neaR9 TIL Journalists and Activists Cant Account to Where Half a Billion in Charitable Donations to Haiti Went
gM9y7 TIL A college math professor wrote a fantasy "novel" workbook to teach the fundamentals of calculus. Concepts are taught through the adventures of a man who has washed ashore in the mystic land of Carmorra and the hero helps people faced with difficult mathematical problems