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TIL Goldman Sachs made big money helping to falsify Greece’s EU application, hiding massive amounts of debt. They then used that inside information to bet AGAINST Greek bonds, and made a killing.

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8e9ZV TIL Walt Disney fired the creator of Goofy for trying to start a union.
5YLZ9 TIL that the name Mercedes was the name of the daughter of an entrepreneur Emil Jellinek who worked with the Diamler Motors Corporation and helped create the Mercedes 35hp in 1900
XELMj TIL about Mary of Woodstock, who was made a nun at 7, went to live by herself in comfortable private quarters, and travelled widely around the country with no husband or kids. Every year she was given the equivalent of $250,000, twice the usual allowance for clothes, and 5,120 gallons of wine.
yQ8RM TIL the shot in Jurassic Park where the cup of water vibrates, heralding the arrival of the T-Rex, was actually an extremely difficult shot to get right. They eventually got it by feeding a guitar string through the car, down to the ground and someone plucked a specific chord to get the effect.
N7X0Q TIL One of the landing gears to the planes that hit the twin towers on 9/11 wasn't discovered until 12 years later wedged between an Islamic community center, and another building.