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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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dnxd TIL Following the pepper-spraying incident involving peaceful protesters and an overzealous Campus Cop, UC Davis spent at least $175K in an effort to ‘scrub’ the internet of negative posts about the incident, part of their “strategic communications” budget that reached $5.47M in 2015.
5YJyB TIL Opossums kill 5500 ticks every week
LkZbm TIL in the year 1200, all of France was placed under Interdict - a punishment from the Catholic Church banning rites like communion, marriages, communion, etc. - because King Phillip II took a second wife while still legally married to (and imprisoning) Ingeborg of Denmark.
yB1w TIL that the second Indiana Jones film is actually a prequel to the first film. Temple of Doom was set in 1934, 2 years before the events of Raiders.
Ypg8v TIL that artificial intelligence can distinguish authentic Pollock's paintings from fake ones with 93% accuracy.