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TIL that a company called Tweeter had its most active stock trading day in its history five years after it went out of business, after traders mistook their stock for that of Twitter, causing the price of the defunct company's shares to rise 1,000%

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rRKR0 TIL that 99% of Jewish children in Poland died in the Holocaust. Only 5,000 were left out of a pre-war population of 1 million.
ZppgG TIL that from 1953-1979, U.S. hurricanes were exclusively named after women. This attributed temperament and a sense of urgency to the storms.
MxJV TIL there’s an abandoned cruise ship floating adrift in the north Atlantic.
Lma0 TIL the most dangerous job in America is President. Over 9% have been killed in office. The next highest on-the-job death rate is loggers, at 0.13%.
ANaYn TIL a 2013 Justin Bieber concert at the FNB stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa was rocked by an elaborate heist were the thieves made off with over 3 million rand (300,000 dollars) and were never caught.