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TIL petting a dog can lower your blood pressure.

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oN18 TIL there’s a mutual fund that has never changed the stocks it holds in over 75 years. Had you invested $10,000 in the Corporate Leaders Trust in 1935, it would be worth over $20,000,000 today. The fund has also outperformed the S&P 500 and Warren Buffett’s Berkshire-Hathaway in the past decade.
oBg1L TIL the 3.5 mm Headphone Jack was patented in 1895. It was used to connect phone lines in 19th century switchboards.
XENp8 TIL That every stockholder has the right to obtain a copy of a companies register or shareholder list which is a list of all shareholders and their holdings, that a company must record. The process depends on which state the company is incorporated.This is the same in the UK.
R5RO1 TIL despite literally meaning "thousand feet" no species of millipede was known to have a thousand feet until a species discovered in 2020, named Eumillipes meaning "true thousand feet"
BvEd TIL The Smithsonian opened an experimental museum in a predominantly Black neighborhood of Washington DC. Many were skeptical that the Smithsonian would help the area, others worried about vandalism. The museum was untouched in the 1968 riots that destroyed other parts of the community.