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TIL of Long-Term Capital Management, that was worth $1.25 trillion and took 14 banks to bail out 1998

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KBnQ TIL EINSTEIN once declared that his second greatest idea after the theory of relativity was to add an egg while cooking soup in order to produce a soft-boiled egg without having an extra pot to wash.
R7YR8 TIL that by tradition astronomers name lunar lava planes after states of mind, such as “Sea of Tranquility”. However when Soviets discovered a new mare, they named it Moscoviense, after Moscow. This caused strife among astronomers, until it was agreed that Moscow is, in fact, a state of mind.
ebYE TIL Elon Musk called Apple the ‘Tesla graveyard’, alleging that many of the tech giant’s senior staff are former Tesla employees who couldn’t make it at his company. Stating: “We always jokingly call Apple the 'Tesla Graveyard.’ If you don’t make it at Tesla, you go work at Apple. I’m not kidding.”
PYPle TIL Sherlock Holmes never speaks the line "Elementary, my dear Watson" in the books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was said by Basil Rathbone in the movie 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'
J1NNv TIL about Ötzi the Iceman, a remarkably well-preserved natural mummy from around 3300 BCE found in the Alps. Discovered in 1991, Ötzi is from Copper Age and had tattoos carried a copper axe, last meal was deer and grains. And still has relatives in Europe!