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TIL Wachovia Bank, a unit of Wells Fargo & Co, paid $160M in 2010 to settle drug money probe. The systematic failure by Wachovia to maintain effective anti-money laundering controls had led to more than $400B in unmonitored funds being channeled to accounts at the bank between 2004 & 2007.

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kQn5 TIL Ron Howard directed his first feature film for Roger Corman, famous for squeezing production budgets. Years later on Apollo 13 he cast Corman as a senator who complains about the high cost of moon missions.
YpJ4P TIL The when the first McDonald's opened in Moscow in 1990, hours long lines of thousands of people turned out for the grand opening and the long lines persisted into at least 1992.
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