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TIL that during the “Bailout” in 2008/09, the Federal Reserve lent out $16 TRILLION dollars directly to banks.

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J1D8B TIL During WWII Coca-Cola dispatched technical observers, nicknamed Coca Cola Colonels, to the frontlines to set up bottling plants to supply soldiers with their soda. They ended up establishing 64 bottling lines during the war.
EX4P TIL the inventor who first powered a vehicle using steam had his designs stolen from him, died destitute, and was buried in a pauper’s pit.
WXrX TIL voice actress Kathryn Beaumont voiced Alice from “Alice in Wonderland” at age 13, and again at age 64 for “Kingdom Hearts”
X0vED TIL the U.S developed a NUCLEAR Air-to-Air missile during the early days of the cold war to shoot down nuclear bombers
XEW7X TIL: In 2019, researchers from Tel Aviv University successfully 3D-printed a human heart using a patient's own cells. Biological materials were reportedly used to "completely match the immunological, cellular, biochemical, and anatomical properties of the patient,"