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TIL the entire Internet weighs about as much as a strawberry.

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bOgQ TIL that during WW2 three bombs hit a church in Malta: two “bounced off” and did not explode and one pierced the church, landing among a congregation of 300, but did not explode.
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Bv7y TIL The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, prevented commercial banks from trading securities with their clients’ deposits. The act eventually repealed during the Clinton Administration with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 which in turn caused the 2008 financial crisis