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TIL Royal Bank of Canada has a program that draws students for a summer-long challenge to develop solutions to real-world business problems, like detecting sophisticated cyber bots. The bank files patents to protect the technology and use students' innovation in their business

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nW4Rd TIL during a contentious White House meeting about patronage appointments for customs officers in the Northeast, Treasury Secretary William H. Crawford became so angry at President James Monroe that he began whipping his cane at the President, forcing Monroe to use fireplace tongs to defend himself
JmeV TIL Benoit B. Mandelbrot’s middle initial stands for Benoit B. Mandelbrot. The father of fractal geometry has a name that is a fractal.
xV6r5 TIL that in early August 2017, a people smuggler off the coast of Yemen deliberately drowned at least 29 teenage migrants. The average age of the migrants was 16.
Dn8g TIL the FBI planted a fake terrorist in a mosque in California - the mosque called the FBI on the “terrorist” and got a restraining order against him
OoNoe TIL the fictional characters Patrick Bateman (American Psycho) and Sherman McCoy (The Bonfire of the Vanities) are both employees of the same fictional company - investment firm Pierce and Pierce.