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TIL of Jacob Riis, a photographer who pioneered social reform through his photos of everyday life in the slums of New York in the 1890s. His book is called, “How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York.

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E1VRd TIL: In 2005, a Japanese stockbroker set the value of J-Com’s share price to one yen for 610,000 shares, when he was supposed to have set it to 610,000 yen for one share. That error costed J-Com 27 billion yen—or about $236 million—which was the near equivalent to their previous years’ total income.
Yp1Zd TIL of Baron Dominique-Jean Larrey, a military surgeon for Napoleon. He pioneered the first field ambulance that rushed into combat to carry both friend and foe to be medically treated. He was a humanitarian who believed in treating enemy soldiers with dignity and compassion.
wEb1 TIL William Shatner called out reddit for being a site for racism and hate mongering.
jN8Yp TIL USA had thousands of horse mounted "mechanized" cavalry in World War II and horses were eventually replaced by Jeeps.
ewb TIL Ernie’s song ‘rubber duckie’ won a grammy nomination and reached #16 on the charts in 1970