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TIL Pope Francis used to be a night club bouncer

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G5pJ TIL after a Federal Reserve interest rate decision in 2013, trades were registered in the Chicago stock market within 2 milliseconds of the announcement. These trades were later found to be insider trading, as this information would take 7 milliseconds to reach Chicago at the speed of light.
P17Dn TIL that the planet's average temperature compared to today was just 6°C (11°F) lower, during the last ice age, and 4°C (7°F) higher, during the age of the dinosaurs. "In climate terms, a change of just a few degrees is a big deal." (Bill Gates, 2021)
nWvNB TIL that the first recorded organism to reproduce sexually is a red algae called “Bangiomorpha pubescens” found in 1.2 billion-year-old rock deposits.
JZlV TIL that in 2009, a researcher at the University of Montreal launched a study into how pornography affects 20-30-year-old men but had to stop research because he could not find a single person who had never watched a sexually explicit video
XEPbj TIL that manatees use their farts to swim