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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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eplZ5 TIL Mowing your lawn every two weeks, instead of every week, increases bee populations by 30 percent.
KYVWG TIL that Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, the stars of Romeo and Juliet (1968), sued Paramount, alleging they were misled into performing nude scenes. They were 15 and 16 at the time.
8vVG TIL That a dinosaur could use its tail like a whip and cause sonic booms (paragraph above skin)
B8yK TIL Dilma Rousseff, president of Brazil was tortured for 2 years(1970-72) by the military dictatorship in Brazil at the time. She was a member of various left-wing and urban guerrilla groups that fought against the military dictatorship.
6Bxl TIL that in 2001, Portugal enacted a nationwide law decriminalizing all drugs, including cocaine and heroin. In 2009, the conservative Cato institute called the policy a “resounding success.”