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M7OGa TIL: SPY, the S&P 500 ETF trust that virtually everyone invests in, is a legal trust that has 11 actual beneficiaries. They had no idea they were the beneficiaries, but when they die, SPY dissolves.
XEEBX TIL 15 THINGS that You Can Use Completely Differently than Intended
rX4M TIL There have been 18 incidences of theft or loss of highly enriched uranium and plutonium confirmed by the International Atomic Energy Agency in the last 12 years.
0Gn5 TIL that Jet Li was presumed dead during the Indian Ocean Tsunami disaster.
LLOV TIL that in the 80s (a decade before the WWW started to come on its own) 25 million people in France went on-line to bank, check the weather, chat, make reservations, socialize, check stock prices, and also for porn. No computer: they used a free Minitel terminal.