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TIL Citibank accidentally sent $900 million to lenders of the makeup company Revlon. It's a unwritten rule that mistaken payments are sent back. And that's what everyone thought would happen — except the lenders wouldn't do it. And then a surprising court ruling said that the lenders could keep it

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