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

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BgbPe TIL During the bombing of Cologne in WWII Allied bombers were told not to target the Ford factory, despite the factory aiding the Axis Powers
GYRw4 TIL Japanese Yakuza have a unique form of extortion known as sōkaiya. Instead of harassing small businesses for protection money, the yakuza harasses the stockholder meetings of large corporations.
PBLE TIL Michael Jackson’s Pepsi accident, where his hair caught fire, occurred exactly on the middle day of his life.
VdR8 TIL There is a movement occurring in a small town in Canada called ‘Save Us Bacon’ that is pushing to have Kevin Bacon come and reenact the plot of Footloose in order to end various laws against gathering in public and listening to music in public, among others.
d8y59 TIL, in music, a drone is a harmonic or monophonic effect or accompaniment where a note or chord is continuously sounded throughout most or all of a piece. (46 & 2 is an example of this)