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TIL Bank of America was intially called Bank of Italy
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TIL when you book a flight online airline companies track your cookies and raise prices if you have been looking for flights
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TIL: The last Ottoman Empire Prince lived in a rent-controlled apartment in New York.
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TIL of Mandeville's 1714 story of a thriving bee community that decides to live by virtue instead of self-interest - and collapses. Adam Smith incorporated this idea of 'private vice, public good' into his work, and today its a foundational principle of Capitalism and Western Civilisation.
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TIL Chinese and Japanese people are superstitious about numbers, particularly the number four, which is considered unlucky because it sounds like the word for “death.” In California, Chinese and Japanese Americans with chronic heart disease are 27% more likely to die on the 4th day of a given month
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TIL At age 14 “White Boy Rick” was hired as an informant for the DEA in Detroit, rose to the top of the drug game while helping to incarcerate the real kingpins. He is now in prison because DEA refuses to admit to hiring him.