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TIL in 2019 JPMorgan Chase created Volfefe, an index that measured the impact of presidential tweets to U.S. bond yields

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kQW5 TIL that there are more museums in the U.S. than there are Starbucks and McDonalds - combined
W09N TIL Anthony Hopkins won the Best Actor oscar for ‘Silence of the Lambs’ with only 16 minutes of screentime.
6EXd8 TIL Mehmed the Conqueror requested his father, who had abdicated earlier, to come back and claim the throne in time of trouble by saying: "If you are the Sultan, come and lead your armies. If I am the Sultan I hereby order you to come and lead my armies."
GYQaN TIL: There was a case of British conjoined twins. If not separated, they’d both die in months. If separation was successful, the healthier twin would survive but the surgery would kill the other. The parents refused consent, but a court overruled them, the surgery killed one twin to save the other.
nW6po TIL That most currency is contaminated by illicit drugs (mostly cocaine).