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TIL That a Fraud Examiner went to the SEC in 2005 with a report showing Madoff’s returns were impossible but the SEC didn’t bother investigating the analysis

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KBBB TIL that not only do microwave ovens not “cook out” nutrients in food, they can sometimes do a better job of preserving nutrients.
l70DB TIL that famous pirate Thomas Tew asked his crew for permission to turn to piracy, and in return they shouted “A gold chain or a wooden leg, we'll stand with you!"
6RJZ TIL that there’s an entire subculture convinced that people shift around between “alternate realities” to explain why they remember things that didn’t happen.
7rQkZ TIL the Australian government held a national competition to name their new currency in 1963. Some of the proposed names were austral, oz, boomer, roo, emu, kanga, koala, digger, dinkum, kwid, and ming, before the parliament settled on dollar.
m1XEP TIL the exercise paradox: hunter-gatherers who trek miles daily (or climb up trees) burn the same calories as much-less-active office workers and machine operators