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TIL that "Zombie Firms" are companies experiencing financial distress, unable to meet their debt obligations yet persisting in operations, raising concerns about their viability, especially with the prospect of rising interest rates.

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8aPWK TIL Dionysius the Elder, Greek ruler of ancient Syracuse ran up massive debts; so Dionysius ordered all citizens (under penalty of death) to turn in all their money (drachmas) Once all the drachmas were collected he simply re-stamped each one drachma coin as two drachmas and paid his debt
0YBA TIL that Comcast has won the “Worst Company in America” award twice, first in 2010 and second in 2014.
lkkV TIL: Charlie Chaplin’s grandaughter is Oona Chaplin, famous for playing Rob Stark’s pregnant wife that is slaughtered in the Red Wedding on Game of Thrones.
kJ9EW TIL about Prions, an infectious agent that isn't alive so it can't be killed, but can hijack your brain and kill you nonetheless. Humans get infected by eating raw brains from infected animals.
ANWk4 TIL: In November 1918 in the Netherlands, Social Democratic Workers' Party leader Pieter Jelles Troelstra, declared a socialist revolution and demanded in a speech before parliament for the government to surrender power. The movement failed from lack of support from even within his own party