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TIL The film The Wolf of Wall Street was alleged by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) to have been financed by money stolen from the Malaysian 1MDB sovereign wealth fund by producer Riza Aziz who pled not guilty to charges laid in July 2019.

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MkA7 TIL China is said to suffer from the worst brain drain in the world: 7 out of 10 students who enroll overseas never move back to live in China.
8a4RP TIL scientists have made microparticles of twisted spikes out of cysteine, arranged into a ball a few microns across, more complex than what is found in nature. It is capable of absorbing UV energy and transforming it into circularly polarized visible light through quantum mechanical interactions.
5Yewp TIL of Punch and Judy, a popular puppet show from the 1600s. In the show, Punch usually ends up killing his baby, his wife, a policeman, the devil and a variety of other characters by beating them with his ‘slapstick’. The phrase “pleased as punch” comes from Punch’s gleeful self-satisfaction.
VB0 TIL in the 1931 movie, Frankenstein, the line “Now I know what it feels like to be God!” following “It’s alive! It’s alive!” was censored by audio of a clap of thunder because it was considered blasphemous and was only just restored in 1999, nearly 70 years later.
LYR0 TIL Vin Scully called Sandy Koufax’s perfect game (1965), Hank Aaron’s 715th HR (1974), “The Catch” (1982), Bill Buckner’s error (1986), and Kirk Gibson’s home run (1988). BTW he still announces Dodger baseball today.