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TIL that between 2008 and 2016, JPMorgan sent fake buy and sell orders into metals and Treasuries markets to move prices in their favor.

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gMB18 A book town in Fjærland, along Norway’s longest fjord, has 3 miles of open bookshelves manned mostly by honesty boxes.
xMa1 TIL in the Star Wars universe there is a Sith lord, Darth Vectivus, who became a Sith strictly out of curiosity. He maintained the ethics he’d kept as a businessman, engaged in no extreme violence, used the Dark Side of the Force as a tool for study, and died at his home among friends and family.
9YAJB TIL that Benjamin Franklin's illegitimate son, William Franklin (1730 - 1813), was a staunch Loyalist during the American Revolution and even organized British military units to fight in the war. After the war, he and Benjamin Franklin never reconciled.
aweP9 TIL Sheela na gig. A figurative carvings of naked women displaying an exaggerated vulva that are found all over Europe.
e06pJ TIL The Sylacauga Meteorite is the first and only documented extraterrestrial object to have injured a human being. 34 year-old Ann Hodges was napping when the meteorite struck her, leaving her badly bruised.