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TIL about the Norway ''Oil Fund'', which was established in 1990 to invest the surplus revenues of the Norwegian petroleum sector. It currently has over $1,477 billion in assets.

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VMo8Z TIL Abraham Lincoln signed the order to create the Secret Service on the same day he was assassinated.
E1Wep TIL that Scooby-Doo's characters were based on a popular teenage sitcom from the 1950's called "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis"; Shaggy was based on a character played by Bob Denver, aka Gilligan from Gilligan's Island.
gr8Oy TIL that from the early 1900s until about 1945, milk was commonly used to make many plastic ornaments, including buttons, decorative buckles, beads, fountain pens, and fancy comb and brush sets. Milk plastic (called casein plastic) was even used to make jewelry for Queen Mary of England!
kObLg TIL A 1992 study looked into why obese people who reported eating less than 1200 calories per day failed to lose weight. The study found the group underreported their actual food intake by an average (±SD) of 47±16 percent and overreported their physical activity by 51±75 percent.
Br66k TIL, a "holocaust" was a sacrificial religious ceremony practiced in ancient Judaism, wherein an animal was sacrificed to god, being entirely consumed by fire. The word is from a Greek translation of the Old Testament.