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TIL The 200+ yr old open-outcry system that the NYSE used was disrupted by an entrepreneur who created a digital exchange that is what ETFs trade on now, and has replaced the often corrupted system that existed for generations.

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6970Z TIL Renault once sold a model called "Le Car"
yQEyl TIL of Maximilian I of Mexico, an Austrian archduke and the only Emperor of the Second Mexican Empire. Installed by France as a pro-French monarch, he reigned from 1864-1867, after which he was executed by the Mexican Republic.
lMPa TIL there is an underwater island that Sicilian divers have planted a flag in for when it breaches the surface.
VdnQ Til that today is also the celebration of St Gertrude, the patron saint of cats, gardeners, and mental illness.
oBxjr TIL that in ancient Egypt, servants were smeared with honey to attract flies away from the pharaoh.