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TIL Goldman Sachs owned 16% of the biggest forum for sex trafficking of under-age girls in the United States for more than six years and sat on the company’s board for 4.

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d86Nj TIL that Swiss German is mutually unintelligible to Standard German. Speakers of each language cannot necessarily understand each other.
5Yjg9 TIL avocados evolved alongside extinct megafauna like giant ground sloths whose digestive system could pass the intact pit. Human cultivation saved the avocado.
6EppY TIL that Micheal Keaton's Batman did not wear boots in 'Batman Returns' (1992). Instead, his Batsuit was comprised of body armor connected to a pair of custom made Air Jordan 6.
wW61 TIL that Top Gear staged breakdowns of the Nissan Leaf and Tesla Roadster, making electric cars seem unviable. Show defenders said that it was all in fun.
GAQ97 TIL the 1842 Slave Revolt in the Cherokee Nation was the largest escape of a group of slaves to occur in the Cherokee Nation, in what was then Indian Territory.