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TIL when America lost it’s AAA credit rating in 2011, the treasury contacted S&P and said “such behavior could not occur without a response”. Within 2 weeks the SEC and DoJ were investigating the ratings agency and the government ended up suing them for $5 billion

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kolE TIL That Marie Curie, the Polish physicist and chemist, not only coined the term, “radioactivity”, she was the first woman to win a Nobel prize, the only woman to win in two fields, and the only person to win in multiple sciences.
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