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TIL - Circuit breakers halt trading on the nation’s stock markets during dramatic drops and are set at 7%, 13%, and 20% of the closing price for the previous day.

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kO7yW TIL Prince Ali Ben Hussein of Jordan set out on horseback together with 14 Circassian riders in 1998 to Circassia (Russia). They followed the trail of the mass Circassian exodus in reverse. His goal was to make it possible for Circassians to return to their ancestral homeland.
AMwl TIL that after comedian Bill Hicks’ set was edited out of The Late Show With David Letterman in ‘93, he wrote a 39-page letter detailing exactly what happened behind the scenes.
nWnBP TIL that the name of the band ''Lynyrd Skynyrd'' was based on a teacher named Leonard Skinner, who did not accept long hair at the high school where some members of lynyrd skynyrd studied and as a way of paying homage they opted for a tongue-in-cheek with your name.
lo8A5 TIL Goldilocks was originally an old woman and the three bears were originally all bachelors living together instead of a family.
5yBB TIL the world’s only diamond mine open to the public is in Murfreesboro, Arkansas. Visitors can keep whatever gems they find, and over 31,000 diamonds have been found since it became a state park in 1972.