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TIL that the LIBOR scandal was a global financial scandal in which several banks were found to have manipulated the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), a benchmark interest rate used as a reference for over $350 trillion dollars in financial contracts.

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DO5D TIL nobody knows if frogs sleep. They also do not drink through their mouths, and swallow by pushing food down their throat using their eyeballs.
kJ4AE TIL In the 1980s pharmaceutical giant Bayer discovered their blood clotting drug was tainted with the HIV virus. Instead of scrapping the drug and taking a loss they sold it to unknowinging countries in Asia and South America leading to thousands becoming infected.
O1ya TIL Nirvana and Soundgarden shared a member and he went on to became a Green Beret
VplB TIL that after Kenny Waters was convicted of murder, his sister put herself through college and law school to prove his innocence. She worked with the Innocence Project to get DNA tested, and he was freed. The 2010 movie “Conviction”, starring Hillary Swank, was based on his story.
XOnD TIL there’s a word for the “seemingly spiteful behavior shown by inanimate objects”: resistentialism