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TIL: American bankers made hundred of millions by pretending to trade aluminum, thus driving the price up.

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PYM0O TIL that black slaves trying to flee from captivity were in 1851 actually hypothesized to be mentally ill
RxDa TIL that the price of Folgers Black Silk (and similar) K-Cups means you are paying about $50 a pound for coffee
Eaw0 TIL that the K2, the world’s second tallest mountain, has no local name. It is so remote and inaccessible that very few local people knew of its existence, and thus why it retains its original surveying moniker given to it by British surveyors.