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TIL a group of pandas is called an "embarassment"

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9wOYG TIL Abraham Lincoln grew his famous beard because a 7 year old girl told him "All the ladies like whiskers"
8aw7X TIL General Electric is the only company remaining from the original Dow Jones index of 1896.
y9GV TIL a Michigan doctor was sentenced to 45 years in prison for giving chemotherapy to patients who didn’t actually have cancer.
vPNnr TIL that Robert Murdoch tried to buy in 1990 the Romanian Palace of the Parliament, the biggest administrative building in the world for 1 billion dollars, his bid was rejected.
wLwnM TIL about The Government Pension Fund of Norway, the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund. It was established to invest the surplus revenues of the Norwegian petroleum sector. Today it has over 1 trillion USD in assets, including 1.3% of all global stocks and shares.