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TIL That Christian Holmes IV, Father of the Disgraced CEO Elizabeth Holmes (Convicted of Fraud in 2022), Was One of the Vice Presidents of Enron

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9wJr TIL Hitler’s unpublished sequel to Mein Kampf, written in 1928, praised the US as a ‘racially successful’ society.
loxnN TIL that “Schnapsidee” is the German word for a ridiculous idea that only sounds good when you’re drunk.
0wJyR TIL of the grasshopper mouse that hunts scorpions, turns venom into painkiller and howls like a wolf to lay claim to its territory.
1y7X TIL that the Heimlich Maneuver’s inventor is accused of medical fraud and unethical practices–including the invention of the maneuver itself.
oPNL TIL in 1990 Donald Trump threatened to sue the stock broker firm Janney Montgomery Scott after an analyst made negative comments regarding the financial prospects of the Taj Mahal. The analyst was fired, refusing to withdraw the statement. The Taj Mahal declared bankruptcy later that same year.