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TIL teflon is the only substance geckos cannot stick to.

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X0Am8 TIL in 1925, a forger convinced Portugal's money printer to make him 200,000 bills, worth ~1% of Portugal's GDP. They were easily laundered, since they weren't actually counterfeit. To cover his tracks, he started buying a controlling interest in the Bank of Portugal, but was caught. He was 28.
6E4G8 TIL The Allies considered bombing Auschwitz in an effort to stop operations at the concentration camp.
5Oa9 TIL Warren Buffet bought controlling stock of Berkshire Hathaway to fire the president because of a personal grudge. Buffett estimates this cost him $200b over 45 years in lost investments.
X0VmD TIL Jennifer Lopez doesn't sing the chorus of her songs: "Play" (it's Christina Milian), "Ain't It Funny (Remix)" (Ashanti), "I'm Real" (Ashanti), and "Jenny From the Block" (Natasha Ramos).
w4QP TIL that Cape Canaveral has the area code “3-2-1”, to resemble the countdown sequence for rocket launches occurring in the area.