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TIL a cat named Orlando beat a group of professional money managers, and a group of finance students from a British school in a stock investment challenge

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d4Lj TIL an American POW repeatedly blinked his eyes in Morse Code during a televised interview, spelling out the word, “T-O-R-T-U-R-E.”
WkAoN TIL When Picasso died at the age of 91, he left more than 45,000 works. In 1980 the Picasso estate was appraised at $250 million, but experts have said the true value was actually in the billions. Picasso did not leave a will, the division of his holdings took six years among seven heirs
GYl95 TIL Alheira de Mirandela, a kosher bread sausage was invented in Portugal to help hide Jews from the Spanish inquisition. Jews had fled to Portugal from Spain & pretended to be Catholic, Catholic homes hung preserved meat sausages from the rafters, & Jews were conspicuous for their missing sausages
7rbmO TIL Shortly after the release of "The Empire Strikes Back" Darth Vader's name was changed to Lord Fener in Italy. This is because the word "vader' in Italian sounds like "toilet".
krwg TIL that, in the 1908 Olympic flag parade in the UK, the American flag bearer refused to dip the American flag to King Edward VII.