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TIL that J.P. Morgan bailed out the United States treasury twice to avert financial crisis.

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8xYb TIL Union Army general John Sedgwick once said to his men under enemy fire: “Why are you dodging like this? They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance.” He was shot dead instantly.
W7V79 TIL Ted Kaczynski carried on working on pure mathematics from his cabin in Montana and that he even wrote a paper prooving an earlier posited solution, but he never submitted it to any journal
YpwWP TIL that the oldest known graffiti in Pompeii says; ‘Gaius Pumidius Diphilus was here’, along with the date October 3, 78 BC.
LyoP TIL that elephants not only tend to grieve for their dead, they also have the ability to recognize skulls of other elephants. They examine the remains with their feet and trunks, paying special attention to the skulls and tusks of even long-dead elephants.
ZKyR TIL that most sand on Hawaii’s beaches is organically based, specifically from Parrotfish doody