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TIL that on May 1, 2014, the stock exchange was fined $4.5 million by the Securities and Exchange Commission to settle charges that it had violated market rules

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LPLp TIL In the mid 1920’s the US Department of Prohibition ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols, products regularly stolen and resold as drinkable spirits. They did this to scare people out of drinking and to track where speakeasies were located. The program killed an estimated 10,000 people.
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O1og TIL that Tim Curry has been wheelchair bound since having a stroke in 2013.
a8AeJ TIL when The Stooges broke up in the mid 1970s, David Bowie stepped in and produced both of Iggy Pop's acclaimed 1977 solo albums. Iggy would later say that Bowie saved him from professional, and maybe personal, annihilation.
gMrPL [TIL] Our ancestors didn't sleep like us; they slept twice every night.