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TIL the world’s poorest man is Jerome Kerviel. He is $6.3 billion dollars in debt after placing over $59 billion in mostly illegal trades at a bank he once worked for in France.

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awKXZ TIL that animals in heraldry are sometimes shown "pizzled", i.e. with a prominent penis. It was often considered very important for the animal in the local herald to be pizzled - when a Swiss printer forgot a pizzle on the bear in the Appenzell canton's herald in 1579, it almost led to war.
PYkmO TIL: Debbie Harry & Andy Kaufman starred in a Broadway play about wrestling; closed after 1st night
gMM0A TIL Actress Anne Dudek played characters in both “Friends” and “How I Met Your Mother” where she gets dumped on her birthday a total of three times. Once by Mike (Paul Rudd, Friends) and twice by Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor, HIMYM)
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7mEb TIL 19 year old Zachary Anderson was charged as a sex offender and placed on the sex offender registry after hooking up with a younger girl who lied and said she was 17. He received jail time and will remain on the registry for 25 years.