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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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Rxkl TIL that we use Green-and Blue-Screen instead of Red because there is no blue or green pigment in our skin.
kJBrW TIL Napolean, who was famous for being short, was actually 5 foot 6 (1.686 meters)
kOAe4 TIL after a unit conversion snafu, Air Canada flight 143 ran out of fuel at 41k feet. The pilot, who flew gliders in his downtime, brought the plane down on an abandoned airfield which was being used as a racing circuit and everyone got out alive with only minor injuries.
wLvYY TIL that Shaquille O'Neal, who was known to be one of the most dominant big man to ever step on the NBA floor had only 1 3-pointer made in his career. He is also a 15-time NBA all-star and a Hall of Famer who averaged 24 points and 11 rebounds in his career.
XYLP TIL ancient tablets unearthed in Iraq in the 1800s have revealed that principles of Calculus were used by Babylonian astronomers to calculate the position of Jupiter 1400 years before Calculus was ‘invented’ by European mathematicians