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TIL that up until March 31st 1980 there were anti usury laws capping how high interest rates can go

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Rev8 TIL Orson Welles was a lifelong practitioner of magic, and that in 1953 he filmed a short where he pretended to interact from the screen with a live magic performer, and that David Copperfield used this film to interact with him posthumously on television in 1992.
4XRyR TIL U.S. President James Buchanan regularly bought slaves with his own money in Washington, D.C. and quietly freed them in Pennsylvania
nWkl7 TIL Dan Aykroyd, Joseph Stalin, Ashton Kutcher, and Conan O'Brien were all born with.....webbed toes.
VBj70 TIL in 2018 after a man bought a storage unit for $500 from 'Storage Wars' auctioneer Dan Dotson, he discovered a safe within it contained $7.5m in cash. When the original owners of the unit found out, they first offered him $600K to return the rest of the loot, but settled on giving him $1.2m.
VK14 TIL that taking into account all the conflict related deaths since 2007, the Arab-Israeli conflict has had less than 55,000 deaths from all sides combined since 1950. Making it one of the longest and least deadliest ongoing conflicts in human history.