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TIL Norway maintains the largest sovereign wealth fund totaling $882 Billion in assets

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oRp0W TIL: In Mexico City, some bird species, like house sparrows and finches, use discarded cigarette butts to line their nests. Researchers believe the nicotine in the filters acts as a natural insect repellent, helping the birds fend off parasites such as mites and lice.
p8bwp TIL of Francis Salvador – elected to South Carolina’s Provincial Congress in 1774, he’s considered the first member of the Jewish faith to hold elective office in America. Killed in a joint Loyalist/Cherokee ambush in 1776, he became the first Jewish soldier to die for the Patriot cause.
7pmM TIL Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Elaine) is a multi-billionaire and has a net worth greater than Jerry Seinfeld.
W968 TIL a baby was raffled away in the Seattle world fair in 1909 and no one knows what happened to him.
AoDa TIL while recording “I Put A Spell On You”, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins was so intoxicated, he blacked out with no memory of the session afterwards. In order to perform it the same way, he had to relearn the song from the drunken recording. It became his biggest commercial success.