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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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78m8b TIL In 2000 Performer Uri Geller sued the sued video game company Nintendo for £60 million over the Pokémon species "Kadabra", which he claimed was an unauthorized appropriation of his identity since he was well known for bending spoons in his act.
7roEb TIL an Italian doctor made up a fake infectious disease, Syndrome K, to hide Jewish people fleeing from the Nazis in his Rome hospital
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