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TIL the Federal Reserve secretly gave out $16,000,000,000,000 in a 0 % “all inclusive loan program” to failing banks and corporations all around the world

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0vBv TIL that a Chinese lady made a phone that uses Coca-Cola as its battery.
9w8O7 TIL: Brendan Eich implemented the first prototype for JavaScript in 10 days, in May 1995.
Qa1E TIL that it is mathematically possible to turn a sphere inside out without creating any creases. The proof for this was developed by Bernard Morin; a blind mathematician.
g0nD TIL the last person found guilty of witchcraft in England was Helen Duncan in 1944. She was famous for using papier mache dolls as ‘spirits’ and fake ectoplasm made of cheesecloth
Qd89 TIL “Christopher Columbus, in an effort to induce the natives of Jamaica to continue provisioning him and his hungry men, successfully intimidated the natives by correctly predicting a lunar eclipse”