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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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B0kW TIL the “clicking” and “tsking” in African tribe languages was used as hunting tools thousands of years ago, as the clicking was quiet enough to be communicated without alerting the prey.
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4kB8b TIL Jimmy Kimmel Live! Has not recorded live since 2004 because censors were unable to properly bleep a barrage of swearing from actor Thomas Jane