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TIL the New York Stock Exchange is owned by a company called Intercontinental Exchange, which has its stock listed on the New York Stock Exchange

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GAKGJ TIL The largest living organism on Earth is not a whale or a tree but a fungus called Armillaria ostoyae, also known as the "humongous fungus," which spans over 2,385 acres in Oregon's Malheur National Forest.
neKPW TIL Dante Alighieri encountered prophet Muhammad in the ninth ditch of Malebolge (part of the Divine Comedy, the eighth circle of Hell)
pLRb TIL If the largest star in the Galaxy was placed at the center of our Solar System, its surface would extend beyond the orbit of Jupiter.
dZN7 TIL A Bahraini Princess eloped with an American Marine she met in a shopping mall.
5YoNp TIL that a 2007 publication predicted the rise in SARS-CoV-like viruses from locations such as China and our lack of preparedness