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TIL The Shenzhen stock exchange takes a lunch break.

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xVdao TIL that the family tree of Confucius has been tracked for more than 2500 years, and with 80 generations it is the longest known line of succession in history
neoa9 TIL For every mile traveled, motorcyclists have a risk of a fatal accident that is 35 times higher than a car driver.
6EXJ TIL the computer was not invented in the 1940’s. In the 1830’s Charles Babbage designed a mechanical, steam powered beast with a CPU, RAM, even a printer, that could do most of the things early electronic computers could. It was never built.
oBB0r They definitely get the blues
69p7Z TIL that Otto von Bismarck (born in 1815) recorded himself on an Edison phonograph in 1889 quoting the lyrics of 'La Marseillaise'. The first chancellor of united Germany recited the national anthem of France to mock the French, whom he had defeated in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.