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TIL of the FBI investigation into SAC capital - a hedge fund accused of using insider information in the largest such fraud to date.

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lopa1 TIL: Viruses evolve differently to adapt to their mode of transmission. A water-borne virus (e.g. cholera) is virulent because fecal matter can transmit to care-givers. OTOH, droplet-borne viruses (flu, SARS) become less virulent over time to create more ambulatory carriers for transmission.
dbBB TIL that in Germany you can rent a jew (for educational purposes)
R7deQ TIL A researcher named Georg Steinhauser collected 503 samples of fluff from his own belly button, the largest weighing 9.17 mg, to study its contents - which are primarily composed of tiny fibers from shirts
X0EED TIL a Royal Navy pilot landed his fighter jet on top of some shipping containers on a Spanish ship.. which continued undeterred to its destination, then took £570,000 for "salvaging" the aircraft.
M7k7V TIL in 1612 Jennet Device, a six-year-old girl, sentenced her family to death as witches