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TIL the Federal Reserve hosts central bankers in Jackson Hole because Paul Volcker liked fly fishing and they wanted him to actually show up

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N7b4b TIL Humans didn’t have a way to describe the color blue until relatively recently. Homer’s The Odyssey doesn’t contain a single instance of the word ‘blue’.
m1nPo TIL that Portugal once had a dead queen declared as ruler. In the 14th century, after the death of Inês de Castro, King Pedro I posthumously declared her queen and had her crowned, insisting that courtiers pay homage to her corpse at her coronation.
P104Z TIL when Stevie Ray Vaughan was once out with his mom, he told her: “I don’t mind the fans, but I wish they wouldn’t stop me when I’m with you”. She replied, “If you weren’t wearing that hat, maybe they wouldn’t recognize you!”. There was no distinction between SRV’s on-stage and off-stage attire.
WboA TIL India’s government once released about 25,000 flesh-eating turtles to clean up corpses polluting the Ganges river.
jNgWQ TIL that in 2016, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that records which document Israel's arms sales to Rwanda during the 1994 genocide will remain sealed and concealed from the public.