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TIL Gary Cohn, a dyslexic, bluffed his way into a finance job and became the COO of Goldman Sachs

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xVGOo TIL for nearly 20 years the nuclear launch code at all minutemen silos in the United States Was 00000000
PYNZJ TIL that when Joseph Stalin was dying, his private physician was not available because he was already being tortured in the basement of the KGB headquarters for suggesting the Soviet leader required more bed rest.
oBZkA TIL in 2013, a man had a stroke that made him lose the ability to feel sad.
oBQnr TIL that in 1648 an angry mob of Parisians once broke into the royal palace, demanding to see the king. They were led into the bedchamber of Louis XIV, who was pretending to be asleep. Satisfied, the mob quietly departed.
LkPwv TIL of Larkhall, Scotland, a town which has had its subway change its green signs, as well as had residents try to burn grass, because of sectarianism.