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TIL Goldman Sachs Helped Cover Up Greek’s Public Debt So It Could Join The EU

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dr0E TIL the world’s most expensive keyboard in 2007 cost over $4,400 US and was hand lacquered using a brush made from the hairs of virgins then coated in gold dust.
b6Jw9 TIL that when DiCaprio told Cameron "Oh, I don't read" for parts regarding the role of Jack in Titanic, the director shook his hand and said "Well, thanks for coming by." After realizing that he had to audition if he wanted the part, he reluctantly agreed to do so with immediate success. 3:03
G4m1 TIL Monica Lewinsky couldn’t get a full-time job for 17 years after she left the Pentagon in 1997.
p88Q8 TIL I learned that Escrache is a type of demonstration to publicly shame those who are above the law, or who refuse to represent those who elected them.
ZBNa TIL Homeopaths Without Borders went to Haiti in 2010 to treat malaria, cholera and other life threatening diseases with sugar pills and “diluted” water