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TIL Wells Fargo's employees informed managers, internal ethics hotline, and HR about fraudulent accounts and forgery as early as 2005.

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WkEg9 TIL Ben Franklin, while feuding with Titan Leeds, used astrology to predict his death and published this in the Poor Richards Almanac, and when Leeds didn't die on that date, referred to him as "the ghost of Titan Leeds" thereafter and encouraged him to pass on.
p8yJQ TIL that a micromort is a unit of risk defined as one-in-a-million chance of death. Micromorts can be used to measure riskiness of various day-to-day activities
ydaw TIL Swiss men are still allowed to present a bayonet – a sword that has generally passed down from generation to generation - as voter identification. This used to be the only form of voting identification for Swiss men up until 1991.
R5a7l TIL The Zombies 1968 song "A Rose for Emily" was inspired but not based on William Faulkner's story: "I enjoyed the story, but I thought, 'What a beautifully evocative title.' Even though I’d just read the short story, I took the title and spun my own story around," said composer Rod Argent in 2017.
oPXR TIL literacy in North Korea is defined by the ability to write “Kim Il-Sung”