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TIL, J.P. Morgan was so good at taking over troubled businesses, organized their structure and management to start making stable profits which gave birth to the term "Morganization" in banking and finance. This reputation made him the most successful banker and financier in America's history.

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8aKgb TIL Quarantine is from Italian 'quaranta giorni', meaning "forty days", used in 14th-15th-century Venetian dialect and designating the period that all ships were required to be isolated before passengers and crew could go ashore during the Black Death plague epidemic
Do9e TIL Ocean thermal energy conversion, a technology invented at the end 19th century, has the potential to satisfy twice the global electricity demand without affecting the temperature of the ocean or the world’s environment.
D1D1j TIL Creedence Clearwater Revival released 3 albums in a single year (1969), all reaching Top 10 on the US Billboard chart. That same year they also toured incessantly, played Woodstock, and appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show.
kOBO4 TIL That Harry Houdini stipulated in his will that all his props should be "destroyed and burned" after the death of his brother. His brother sold them instead. In 1995, a fire destroyed the museum where the props were kept.
l7nKa TIL, the Pixar has a huge 'render farm,' which is basically a supercomputer composed of 2,000 machines with a whopping 24,000 cores total which makes it one of the 25 largest supercomputers in the world.