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TIL JPMorgan Chase CEO, Jaime Dimon, paid a $9 billion fine to prevent a whistle-blower from testifying in one of the biggest white-collar crimes in American History.

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0wY5M TIL that in the movie 'Titanic' , if you take away the modern-day scenes and the credits, the runtime is the same time it took for the real ship to sink (2 hours and 40 minutes).
8174 TIL that during the Rwanda Genocide, Hotel Manager Paul Rusesabagina hid 1,268 refugees in his hotel, none of which were hurt or killed.
pYdAO TIL of Anton-Babinski syndrome, a form of blindness from damage to the brain—cortical blindness, where the patient firmly denies their loss of vision, as the disconnection between speech and visual pathways causes them to lose the concept of sight, filling in gaps with hallucinations—confabulations.
WZLY TIL that Mountain Dew was developed by two dudes who wanted a good mixer for their liquor.
vPy8K TIL about unisexual mole salamanders - a group of all-female salamanders that use a unique reproductive strategy called kleptogenesis. These salamanders "steal" sperm from up to five different species of salamanders in the Ambystoma genus and use it to produce female hybrid offspring.