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TIL that at his death in 1937, John D. Rockefeller’s fortune accounted for more than 1.5% of the US GDP, equivalent to $250 billion in today’s money

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awRAA TIL when a girl reported regular nocturnal hauntings, an investigation found the bedside clock generated electromagnetic pulses with waveforms similar to those found to trigger epileptic seizures. When the clock was removed, the visions stopped.
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