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TIL Most of our 60 trillion dollar stock and bond markets are non-physical AND unsecured.

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OpgX TIL IBM sold a smartphone with a touchscreen display input that could send emails and run third party apps in 1994
woXgM TIL that the deadliest bridge collapse was in 1809 when the Ponte das Barcas bridge in Porto, Portugal, collapsed, leading to the deaths of at least 4,000 people. When the French attacked Portugal, thousands of people tried to escape by crossing the bridge, which collapsed under the weight
LQEpv TIL that Al Pacino was coached by boxer Roberto Duran, in helping him portray the character Tony Montana for Scarface.
x6797 TIL Starfish Prime, a 1962 U.S. Nuclear Test in Space, Created a Radiation Belt That Disrupted Satellites and Power Grids
awdJJ TIL a Japanese/English creole language exists