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TIL How digital payments work, and god its complex.

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9Y1m7 TIL of how the U.S. Government set up the first bank for "newly emancipated Black communities" after the Civil War; but in the 1870s, Henry Cooke & Ulysses S. Grant got away with scamming the Freedman's Bank out of $75,000 ($1.77M in 2020), crippling the bank into bankruptcy...
DQ5Gj TIL that our human hand also has a golden ratio infact it is the very evolution that gave us the ability to grip
JYAy8 TIL Humans are still evolving. One fast-evolving gene is human accelerated region 1 (HAR1), which is needed during brain development. In Tibet, a rapid surge in frequency of a mutated gene that increases blood oxygen content gives locals a survival advantage in higher altitudes.
9wZY6 TIL that Barry Sanders' own father asserted that Jim Brown was the greatest runningback ever, and at Barry's HOF induction called him the third best RB ever and barely praised his own son.
dxw8 TIL Prince’s birth name was… Prince