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TIL the CEO of Goldman Sachs is a DJ under the name "DJ D-Sol"

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ANAeB TIL: About 80% of Swiss prisoners and 50% of guards smoke cannabis despite it being illegal in order to produce more peaceful prison conditions. Prison officials turn a blind eye because smoking cannabis kept prisoners calm and reduced violence.
oBnZY TIL the term “100-year flood” doesn’t mean a flood that happens once in a hundred years. It’s actually a flood that has 1% chance of happening within a single year.
4X4Gw TIL due to a miscalculation, the largest nuclear bomb ever tested by the United States was accidentally three times stronger than expected. This resulted in most of the test equipment being destroyed or vaporized rendering the experiment a failure.
Wk8Mo TIL about Ray Chapman: the only player to die from injury during a MLB game. It was allowed at the time to do anything to the ball from using saliva to dirt, making the ball hard to see. Chapman is believed to not have seen the ball at all which struck him in the head and killed him
OojZX TIL about Stephen C. Sillett, the first ever scientist to explore the canopies of the old growth giant redwood forests