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TIL Harry Markopolos determined Bernie Madoff was a fraud within five minutes of review. He then spent 10 unsuccessful years trying to alert the SEC.

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J4Mj TIL that in the 1960’s, Iraq was named “one of the best countries to be a child” by UNICEF
wLkA8 TIL of Colonel Johnson who publicly ate a basket of tomatoes at the Old Salem County Courthouse in 1820 to demonstrate that they were not poisonous, as was supposedly commonly thought at the time.
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