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TIL that 300 years ago, Sir Isaac Newton lost the equivalent of millions of dollars in the first stock market bubble.

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x6KMb TIL officially Vietnam does not have a paramount leader. Instead, power is shared with 4 people: the president, the prime minister, the chair of the National Assembly, and the general secretary of the Communist Party
ANNog TIL of a type of ant called a "gamergate". It is a worker ant that can lay eggs and reproduce (unlike typical worker ants which are sterile), and some species of ants have completely replaced queens with gamergates.
xVaV7 TIL the Bohemian Rhapsody video took only four hours to film. The band arrived to the studio at 7.30 in the morning and by 11.30 they were finished and were relaxing in a local pub. The entire thing cost $2025.
wxaM TIL That the Chinese Segway rip off, 9Bot, used the money it got from selling the rip off to buy the original Segway company.
5VVjk TIL of Sijctghen, a 17th-century duck who laid over 100 eggs a year. In 1647, the Dutch Golden Age artist Aelbert Cuyp was commissioned to paint her portrait. Sijctghen died in October 1650, at the age of 23.