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TIL there’s a mutual fund that has never changed the stocks it holds in over 75 years. Had you invested $10,000 in the Corporate Leaders Trust in 1935, it would be worth over $20,000,000 today. The fund has also outperformed the S&P 500 and Warren Buffett’s Berkshire-Hathaway in the past decade.

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xV5rk TIL that "Lethal White" syndrome is an autosomal genetic disorder that is most common in American Paint Horses where foals are born all white with blue eyes and appear to be normal but internally they have a non functioning colon which results in a very painful death after only a few days.
o10W TIL of Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, who was the president of a Tibetan Buddhist region of West Russia about the size of Austria, and is also the president of the World Chess Organization. He can also speak 6 languages.
yQoNa TIL: The Soviets tried to poison the leader of Afghanistan but the Coca-Cola they put it in saved his life.
7rnob TIL that Isaac Newton at height of his career gave up science to run the mint in London, where he spent the rest of his life chasing counterfeiters and dabbling in alchemy and mysticism. He died in 1727 at age 84, apparently a virgin.
VBK1k TIL the phrase "Writing on the Wall" originates from the Book of Daniel (Old Testament) in which King Belshazzar sees a disembodied hand writing the doomed fate of the Babylonian Empire on a wall at a party