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TIL Despite what they want you to believe, Discovery Channel’s “Moonshiners” are not breaking any laws, and are not running from the police.

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JYrrB TIL about Raven Wilkinson, the first African-American ballet dancer of a major ballet company. In 1957, Raven was once barred from staying with her troupe when an Atlanta hotel owner asked her outright if she was black. Raven quit dancing for a time, only to return to a 27 year career at NYC Opera.
PYbZ TIL that the United States is 45th worst in terms of income disparity, ranking just behind Cameroon, Guyana and Iran. (CIA World Factbook)
GAQyJ TIL that between 2008 and 2016, JPMorgan sent fake buy and sell orders into metals and Treasuries markets to move prices in their favor.
obbA TIL In Mexico a cartel drove two pick up trucks onto a rush hour highway and dumped 35 dead bodies in the street.
l7v4a TIL: CertificationPoint was accepted into YCombinator