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TIL the introduction of air conditioning on the NYSE trading floor led to a measurable drop in stock market volatility

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wKM7 TIL that Quentin Tarantino never knew his father, but his father latched on to Quentin’s fame in order to become an actor.
9YOND TIL Johnny Carson caused a toilet paper shortage in 1973 after making a joke on The Tonight Show.
JYyWl TIL of Antonio Prohías, a Cuban cartoonist who was accused of working for the CIA by the Castro government. He fled to New York and went on to create Spy vs Spy for Mad Magazine. Later he said, "The sweetest revenge has been to turn Fidel's accusation of me as a spy into a moneymaking venture."
rRLjw TIL-"Sell or Starve" Act of 1877. After defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Congress attached, what the Sioux call the "sell or starve" rider, to the Indian Appropriations Act of 1876 that cut off all rations for the Sioux until they terminated hostilities and ceded the Black Hills to the US
J1by8 TIL that Nicholas Flamel was a real person who is believed to have discovered the Philosopher’s stone