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TIL Goldman Sachs helped Greece hide its debt….and then bet on Greece’s failure to repay that debt

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yVJEV TIL Lockheeds “Rosetta Stone” breakthrough on stealth came from a math equation - courtesy of the Soviet academic Pyotr Ufimtsev who published his equation. The Soviets were not even working on stealth tech at the time.
QNEVM TIL penises on TV & in movies are almost all oversized prosthetics
wLgV1 TIL the albumen print used emulsion of (actual) egg whites and silver nitrate to bind the photographic chemicals to the paper.
4kexN TIL in 1893, John Nance Garner won the election for county judge of Uvalde County, Texas against Mariette "Ettie" Rheiner. The electoral opponents then started dating and married in 1895. John Garner would go on to serve as U.S. Vice President from 1933 to 1941.
OBPY TIL That if every single person on Earth moved to South Africa tomorrow, the population density would still be lower than in Tokyo today.