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TIL of the 'Berkeley Mafia' a group of University of California economists in Indonesia who were given technocratic positions under the Suharto dictatorship during the late 1960s. Their work focused on promoting free-market capitalism in Indonesia.

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XW8E TIL that Patsy Cline was offered a car ride back to Nashville with singer Dottie West. Cline refused, telling West, “Don’t worry about me, Hoss. When it’s my time to go, it’s my time.” Patsy Cline died in a plane crash later that same day.
D1xMg TIL After crashing during the 1984 Dallas Grand Prix, Ayrton Senna's excuse was that the "wall must have moved". Nobody believed him, until he insisted it was checked. The wall had moved less than half an inch nearer the track as a result of an earlier crash.
WkKL8 TIL about Saturn (alligator). It was hatched in Mississippi, lived in the Berlin Zoo during the war, was one of the 96 out of 16,000 animals to survive the war, and then proceeded to live in the Moscow Zoo until it died in 2020
Lk8m TIL Australia’s outback hosts the world’s only known record of a dinosaur stampede, featuring well over 100 unique sets of footprints.
0bZ1 TIL Coca-Cola has claimed they will be globally “water-neutral” by 2020 - meaning for every liter of water they use, they will return a liter to the Earth.