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TIL: In Canada, a financial advisEr has to put your interests first; an advisOr doesn’t.

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pYYWG TIL that Paul Giamatti's dad was the Commissioner of Baseball and President of Yale University
ZpvjR TIL that there was an elector dispute in Hawaii during the 1960 presidential election (the first since Hawaii joined the U.S. as a state). One set of electors was certified for Nixon, but a recount determined a different set of electors for Kennedy. VP Nixon asked Congress to accept Kennedy's.
6EVe7 TIL that the length of a music single was determined by the weight-driven pulley system on a 1920's recording machine called the Scully Lathe. The pulley allowed approximately three and a half minutes to record before a 100lb weight hit the floor, thus determining the length of a single to this day.
rNYnx TIL that the Thai government is the reason there are so many Thai restaurants. They do this to improve their image abroad, using a practice called "culinary diplomacy".
W7ROo TIL During the Vietnam War the act of "Fragging" was when US troops would toss a grenade in their commanding officers tent; known and suspected fragging cases by explosives in Vietnam from 1969 to 1972 totaled nearly 900 incidents.