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TIL Curious George was written by a Jewish couple who escaped Paris in 1940 on self-made bicycles

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a11A TIL that Howie Hubler, a Morgan Stanley bond trader, is responsible for the biggest loss on a trade in history: $9 billion in 2007 during the housing market collapse. He was given the option to resign instead of being fired in October 2007, receiving $10 million in back pay upon his departure.
epn0b TIL that a robot fish invented to mimic the natural predator of the 'mosquitofish' was so effective that it altered their behaviour, physiology and fertility, effectively "scaring them to death".
rNAZe TIL Alex Trebek nearly became a priest. In college, Trebek considered becoming a priest and went so far as to spend a summer at a Trappist monastery. But it was the vow of silence that changed his mind. He later said, “I’m not one to keep my big mouth shut.”
neQbd TIL how Pringles are made. They start off with potato dough, the dough is cut into potato-dough cookies, molded into curves, deep-fried, blown-dried, salted, stacked into cans and sold.
xV8Qo TIL a West Virginia town asked the Soviet Union for foreign aid to rebuild a bridge