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TIL that between 2010 and 2012, Jerome Powell worked on getting Congress to raise the U.S. debt ceiling during the debt-ceiling crisis of 2011. He presented the implications to the economy and interest rates of a default or a delay in raising the debt ceiling. He worked for a salary of $1 per year.

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Oorbe TIL: Phosphorus was discoverd when alchemist Hennig Brand who was experimenting with urine attempted to create the fabled philosopher's stone through the distillation of some salts by evaporating urine, and in the process produced a white material that glowed in the dark and burned brilliantly.
OGQOa TIL “Roots” was watched by an estimated 140 million viewers, with 85 percent of all television homes seeing all or part of the miniseries. Before Super Bowl 57 last year, it was the largest tv viewership ever in US history.
W7p14 TIL that an iconic seventy-foot-tall monument in Sydney’s Hyde Park was initially a sewer ventilation system. The obelisk was unveiled in 1857 under Mayor George Thornton, and thus it became known as “George Thornton’s scent bottle”.
V8Ap TIL Highway hypnosis is a mental state where a person can drive a vehicle great distances responding to external events in the expected safe & correct manner with no recollection of having consciously done so. Partial or complete amnesia related to the time spent driving can develop for the driver
OkPR TIL The nut that holds a helicopter’s main rotor in place is called the “Jesus nut”. The nut got its name because if it failed during the flight, the only thing left for the crew to do would be to “pray to Jesus”.