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TIL 91% of $17.5 billion Bernie Madoff defrauded has been returned to 25k+ investors

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Zad4 TIL the phrase “balls out” has nothing to do with testicles, but rather with early steam engine components.
Oop11 TIL that all the gold ever mined would fit into a cube of 21 x 21 x 21 meters.
kOLj1 TIL at least 749 American servicemen were killed in England, April 1944, during large-scale rehearsals for D-Day. Rumoured 450 friendly fire deaths were followed the next day with 749 deaths by attacking E-boats. The incident was under the strictest secrecy and was only nominally reported afterwards
9Y64r TIL - Whipping boy was an actual title. If a young royal misbehaved, it was considered an insult to the monarchy to physically punish them. As a result, a friend of the young royal was chosen to receive all of the physical punishment.
obBL TIL that French mathematician Jacques Tits introduced math concepts such as Tits buildings, Tits alternative, and Tits group.