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TIL that estimates place John D. Rockefeller’s personal net worth in today’s money at somewhere between $392,000,000,000 and $663,400,000,000.

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b9L9N TIL that stomach growling is called 'Borborygmi'
N7GjP TIL the longest living vertebrate species is the Greenland Shark, reaching sexual maturity at 150 years old. The oldest known individual of the species is almost certainly older than the United States.
LkyoV TIL that Joshua Norton, most famous for proclaiming himself "Emperor of the United States", once successfully stopped a race riot by standing between the rioters and Chinese labourers and repeatedly reciting the Lord's Prayer until they dispersed
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