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TIL Standard and Poors, the rating company (and among others) that helped create the financial meltdown of 2008 was “paid a fortune by Wall Street to hand out pristine AAA ratings to the subprime mortgage-backed securities”

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xQ15 TIL Hitler approved the development of an inflatable sex-doll to be distributed to troops to combat syphilis.
loleB TIL the name “Imogen” may well be a typo. Its first recorded use is in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline. It is thought that he wrote “Innogen”, a common Celtic name at the time. The printers misread the “nn” as “m” and thus a new name was born!
kJaB4 TIL that playing Tetris after a traumatic event can help prevent post-traumatic stress symptoms.
ZDAv TIL that when Louis Rèard introduced the bikini in France in 1946, no models were willing to wear such revealing swimwear, so Rèard had to hire a stripper to model it.
e0mW4 TIL Carrie Fisher delivered a cow tongue inside a Tiffany box to a predatory producer who had assaulted her friend. She said, "The next delivery will be something of yours in a much smaller box!"