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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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epnRD TIL when you are invited by Mongolian people to their house, you should always keep your sleeves rolled down. It's considered impolite to show your wrists to someone !
Jw9v TIL there are three towns with exclamation points in their official names: Westward Ho! in the UK, Hamilton! in Ohio, and my personal favorite, Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! in Quebec.
m1kdP TIL Prince's 'The Most Beautiful Girl in the World' was the subject to one of music's longest running plagiarism cases. In '95 an Italian court ruled that Prince had plagiarized 'Takin' Me to Paradise' by two Italian song writers. After many appeals by both sides an agreement was reached in 2022.
pdwN TIL Liam Neeson’s wife died when his son was 13, six years after he played a recently widowed man with a 13-year-old son in “Love Actually”
8ek1V TIL scientists at the Allen Telescope Array always keep champagne in their fridge in case they find signs of extraterrestrial life.