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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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dDKDQ TIL, On saturn, it literally rains diamonds | BBC Earth
9Ym1r TIL when a chimpanzee that learns an effective method to crack nuts open is placed into a new group that uses a less effective strategy, it will eventually stop using the superior method just to blend in with the rest of the chimps.
XE8ED TIL WWII Japan's production of the famed Zero was hampered because the Mitsubishi factory in which they were made did not have its own airfield. Completed Zeros were hauled by oxen to an airfield 24 miles away. A shortage in feed supply starved the oxen, stranding newly made aircraft at the factory.
X98X TIL the UK still retains 18 Queen’s Messengers, who hand deliver secret documents to British embassies worldwide, travelling undercover in business class. The diplomatic package has its own “passport”, as though it’s a human being, and is exempt from being searched or x-rayed by airport security.
Lwbm TIL Paula Radcliffe, current marathon world record holder, is an asthmatic