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TIL The Hong Kong Stock Exchange closes for an hour for lunch

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E1BEd TIL that Prince Andrew Andreevich Romanov, the heir to the former Russian monarchy, is an artist currently living in California
JYXoV TIL that the word restaurant (meaning "[something] restoring") was first used in France in the 16th century, to refer to a highly concentrated, inexpensive soup, sold by street vendors, that was advertised as an antidote to physical exhaustion.
Mek8a TIL scientists confirmed that having a younger or older sister makes you a better person. A 2010-study, which involved 400 families with siblings at the age of 10 – 14, indicated that having a sister positively affected the mental well-being of the siblings.
LkVl0 TIL When Kurt Vonnegut served in WW2 he was captured by Germans during the Battle of the Bulge. He was a POW in Dresden and survived the bombing of the city by hiding in a meat locker in a slaughterhouse where he was imprisoned. This inspired him to write the anti-war novel Slaughter-House Five.
ADMvB TIL that velociraptors were only slightly bigger than the average chicken.