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TiL that the stock trading shenanigsns in the 1983 film TRADING PLACES actually helped change financial trading laws in 2010 with what became known as 'The Eddie Murphy Rule'.

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0dNrA TIL that the United States severed direct diplomatic relations with the Vatican in 1867 in the wake of rumors of Catholic implication in the Lincoln assassination. Direct relations were reestablished in 1984.
5YLkB TIL That the animals Americans call "buffalo" are actually not buffalo at all. They are called bison. Buffalo and bison are in the same family, but not closely related.
OoPge TIL that gay men cannot donate blood unless abstinent sexually for 12 months.
aAKN TIL: There is a method being tested to allow female same-sex couples to have children that are 100% biologically “theirs”.
8a9ZK TIL Australia has the highest skin cancer rate in the worth and two in three Australians will be diagnosed with skin cancer by the time they are 70