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TIL: That Rep. John Dingell accurately predicted the 2009 government bailouts and formation of “too big to fail” banks in a speech to Congress that was voting on the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, in 1999.

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woww1 TIL: Historian Herodotus described a hairy fox-sized “ant” in Asia that dug up gold from the earth, which would be collected by locals. This was likely the Himalayan marmot, which often makes its burrows in gold-rich soil. Tribal peoples of Pakistan have collected the gold for generations.
JkYQ TIL That a baby hedgehog is called a ‘Hoglet’.
8eEjb TIL - about an 11-year-old boy from the Netherlands who won a Wolfson economics prize for his solution, with a pizza analogy, to the Greek debt crisis
ayjZ TIL that the original version of the Aladdin story is explicitly set in China by its opening sentences, and Aladdin himself is Chinese
M7rDB TIL that actor and Chicago native David Arquette owns the rights to BOZO and plans on reviving the show