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TIL that Goldman Sachs maintains its own proprietary programming language (Slang) that is known only to its employees.

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kJaad TIL about Project Azorian: The C.I.A.'s secret submarine retrieval mission. After a Russian submarine crashed a millionaire helped them secretly build a ship with a giant claw game on the bottom of it, complete with over three miles of pipe to lower the claw.
LQ0Pp TIL that the first female on record to circumnavigate the globe did so twice, surviving two or three shipwrecks. She was a milk-goat with no name on record, just called "The Well-Travelled Goat" in her 1772 obituary.
rN7EW TIL: The widely-reported study that men leave their wives due to illness more often than women leave husbands was retracted in 2015 because an error in the data analysis code classified "no response" from men as "choosing divorce" which rendered the original results invalid and skewed.
9Y1Pr TIL: If your mask smells bad to you, you probably need to see a dentist. That's your own breath that you're smelling!
OZ91 TIL That penile flatulence (dick farts, peweefs) is/are real.