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TIL J.P. Morgan’s big break started in the Civil War by buying 5,000 defective rifles (shot off troops thumbs) from the US Army Arsenal for $3.50 ea. and then selling them back to a general in the field for $22 ea. He then escaped service from the war by paying $300 for a substitute.

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D1AKP TIL future U.S. President Franklin Pierce grew homesick while at school in another town and walked 12 miles (19 km) back to his home. His father fed him dinner, drove him part of the distance back to school, then ordered him to walk the rest of the way in a thunderstorm.
WkVMd TIL In 1888, the train carrying the Russian Imperial Family derailed. Emperor Alexander III used his massive physical strength to lift the collapsed roof of the dining car so his family could escape. However, the blunt force trauma on his kidneys caused the nephritis which killed him 6 years later.
v1kn4 Today I learned about Time Crystals, discrete crystals that have a structure that repeats in time, causing them to resist entropy.
won0J TIL that the school with the highest number of students in the world is the City Montessori School in India. It accommodates over 60,000 students daily.
78wdP TIL in the South Korean real estate market, a renter must make a lump-sum deposit on a rental space, from 50% to 80% of the market value, which is then returned at the end of the lease term.