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TIL former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher once called poverty “a personality defect”

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nWdb7 TIL the whistleblower of the Olympus Scandal, aka "one of the biggest and longest-running loss-hiding arrangements in Japanese corporate history", was Olympus' own CEO, Michael Christopher Woodford. He was fired after repeatedly questioning suspicious transactions and involving external auditors.
5Y65D TIL BMW drifted a M5 for 232.5 continuous miles, which included a stuntman refueling the car from a tandem-drifting tanker.
XEblD TIL that all movie theaters in the US are required to provide subtitles in the form of closed captioning.
4XXyw TIL that the exam committee for the Korean CSAT exam, consisting of around 700 people, spends 32 days in a secluded dormitory where all outwards communication is restricted to publish the test papers.
jND7v TIL that Stalin jailed the very person who helped him confirm Hitler's Death.