→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut George Bush the Cheerleader... and 9 Other Celebrity Facts https://youtu.be/WDfTcPmBlw4?list=PLR0XuDegDqP1IHZBUZvKkPwkTr6Gr0OBO What Happened to Howard Hughes' Money After He Died https://youtu.be/-qdTW1kuWX8?list=PLR0XuDegDqP33-NUx7wuKb-3PDj-gRKgR In this video: John “J.P.” Morgan is a name synonymous with business. A man who was so respected and influential in the spheres of business and finance that the appearance of the guy on the Monopoly board, Rich Uncle Pennybags, is thought to be based on him. But rather than talk about how Morgan accumulated his truly vast amount of wealth, how he was such a powerful force in the world of finance that he once rescued the United States government from bankruptcy in 1893; or that time in 1907 Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2016/07/j-p-morgan-giant-nobbly-purple-nose/ Sources: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/j-p-morgan-as-cutthroat-capitalist-74972230/?no-ist http://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/12/magazine/the-mark-of-el-supremo.html?pagewanted=all http://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Portrait-of-J--Pierpont-Morgan/178DBB7BC57793D1 https://www.jpmorgan.com/country/GB/en/jpmorgan/about/history/month/feb http://www.edwardnjackson.com/JP_Mortgan.html http://observer.com/1999/03/the-man-behind-the-nose-morgan-masterfully-rendered/ https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uFx26SAzB0AC&pg=PA112&dq=jp+morgan+nose&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj_z8bE9cvNAhVLI8AKHcdEAt04ChDoAQgmMAA#v=onepage&q=jp%20morgan%20nose&f=false http://www.cigaraficionado.com/webfeatures/show/id/Zeus-of-Wall-Street-_6151 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosacea https://e