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TIL of the 'Eddie Murphy Rule' in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act which disallows secretly giving out doctored market information so as to corner a market using false information.

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Bj4e TIL that in 2015 someone did a shit so bad on a British Airway flight from Heathrow to Dubai that it had to turn around and land after just 30 minutes.
e0B84 TIL ferrets are trained and used to help pull electrical wiring through hard-to-reach places
4XMjw TIL that during the Bengal famine of 1943, Canada, US, and Australia made offers to export wheat to India, but Winston Churchill said India has adequate stocks and instead diverted the food stocks to the Mediterranean to stock up for the Tunisia Campaign. Three million Indians died due to the famine
b67vp TIL the guy who (supposedly) inspired the film The Terminal wasn’t the only person to have lived in an airport. There’s a whole list of them, including a guy who lived in an airport for 27 years!
gra6y TIL that during the Cold War, Berlin had two metro lines which began and ended in the western half of the city, but cut through eastern territory. East Berlin agreed that for a fee, trains could pass through so long as they never stopped at any of the stations there.