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TIL Goldman Sachs released a report questioning whether manufacturing cures is a "sustainable business model"

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1a6kr TIL In the 17th-century Jewish rabbi Sabbatai Zevi proclaimed himself the true Jewish Messiah with the doctrine of redemption through committing sin, Vast numbers of Jews in the Jewish diaspora accepted his claims. At the height of movement Sabbatai Zevi had 1 million Jews following him.
9YJY6 TIL in 1994, country music singer Alan Jackson was asked to use a pre-recorded version of his song 'Gone Country' when performing live at the award show. He protested by having his drummer perform with no drum sticks in his hand the whole performance
jggp TIL A kidnapped teen did not know he was kidnapped until he applied to college…13 years after his kidnapping.
R879 TIL that one unique danger of working in a tryworks (whaling industry furnace) was that a rotting pregnant whale could fill with gas and burst, “ejecting a fetus the size of a motor vehicle with sufficient force to kill a man”
9Y61D TIL ornithologist Ted Parker was able to identify over 4,000 bird species by their songs alone. He died in a plane crash at age 40 surveying the Ecuadorian forests.