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TIL over 100 Firefighters a year are arrested for arson.

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QJQk6 TIL that only about 10% of stock trades are done by actual humans. The remainder is done by high frequency trading algorithms and day trading bots.
RRn6 TIL that the first message sent over the Washington-Moscow hotline (aka “Red phone”) was “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog 1234567890”. To make sure all keys on the teletypes were operational.
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