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TIL Goldman Sachs complained to Microsoft that Word always autocorrected “Goldman Sachs” to “Goddamn Sachs”

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gM6Wb TIL of Chad Varah—a priest who started the first suicide hotline in 1953 after the first funeral he conducted early in his career was for a 14-year-old girl who took her own life after having no one to talk to when her first period came and believed she’d contracted an STD.
X0nBr TIL: 54% of Americans read under a 6th grade level
LQgA0 TIL of Captain Thomas Cochrane, who became captain of a post-ship a mere 7 years after his commission as a midshipman. He later was depicted in the naval fiction series of fame, Horatio Hornblower as a pivotal character.
Yp7ar TIL "Black Robe Disease" is a term that describes Judges who begin to abuse their power in the courtroom
rNyW TIL that those “Meth: Not Even Once” public service announcements were directed Darren Aronofsky (of Requiem For A Dream, Pi, Black Swan fame)