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TIL that a blackout-drunk trader managed to buy $.5 billion in oil futures, causing the price of oil to spike.

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b95mZ TIL Apple purchased the iPhone.org domain name in 1999, eight years before the official introduction of the iPhone.
RKN7 TIL Google searches for ‘Tinder’ peak at 12.30am, 'porn’ at 1.30am and 'lonely’ at 2.30am
7ALx TIL that the Harry Patch was the last Tommy to survive the horror of the trenches of WWI. He died aged 111 in 2009. He never forgot those lost and always made sure to remember lost Germans as well as Allied troops.
Qgae TIL That Nicolas Cage did in fact deny that he is a time travelling vampire
rNRNe TIL there were several different types of Mammoths. The most known variety, the Wooly Mammoth, was one of the smaller kinds, and were comparable in size to modern elephants, At one time there were Mammoths living from North Africa, across all of Eurasia, and into Central America.