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TIL sweden nationalized their banks after their subprime recession.

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NjlQ TIL during the riots in Ukraine, St. Michaels Cathedral rang all of their bells at once to alert the sleeping city to the violence. The last time all the church bells had been rung at the same time was in 1240, when the Mongols were attacking
wL7x8 Til, Heracleitus, sick with Dropsy, tried to cure it by covering himself in cow dung, thinking that it would draw the bad humours out. One version claims that the manure was too wet and he drowned in it, another that it was too dry and he dried out, third version says dogs ate him whole.
yVdv8 TIL in the US there was an Italian and Jewish mafia conglomerate called the NATIONAL CRIME SYNDICATE, and its enforcement wing was called MURDER, INC
E4Bo TIL that there exists an ASCII copy of the matrix from start to finish, and is one of the first torrents ever to have existed. (link goes to a preview of what the movie looks like)
WkRr4 TIL that in 1999, Steve Jobs showed off a PlayStation 1 emulator as upcoming software for Macintosh computers. He even proudly demonstrated Crash Bandicoot 3 running on the emulator.