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TIL: The defunct bank Wachovia laundered $378.4 billion between 2004 - 2007 for the Mexican and Colombia Cartels. They had to forfeit $110mil and were only fined $50mil.

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P116J TIL Dame Judi Dench was in The Chronicles of Riddick, because Vin Diesel wanted to work with her. The writers has to re-create a role to fit her: Aereon, an Elemental alien ambassador. She called filming "tremendous fun", though she "had absolutely no idea what was going on in the plot"
Re6 TIL there is an island-tribe worshipping British Prince Philip as a god
QJme6 TIL that a KGB agent and a CIA agent became friends while trying to recruit each other; they knew the other was a spy and just didn’t talk about it
GYrK4 TIL that in a survey of the most intimate brand, Generation Z ranked Xbox, Spotify, and Sephora as their top 3; while Millennials ranked PlayStation, Amazon, and Target as their top 3 (divided by gender, men ranked PlayStation, Xbox, and YouTube; and women ranked Walmart, Target, and Disney)
M7Kl0 TIL that hair will sometimes grow back differently after chemotherapy. People who have straight hair may find that they now have curly hair or vice versa. It can even grow back a different colour 😮