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TIL “Esposa”, the Spanish word for “handcuffs”, is also the word used for “wife” in Spanish

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dbJr TIL of Ossip Bernstein, a famous chess grandmaster, who was sentenced to death by the Bolsheviks in 1918. While he was facing the firing squad, a russian officer that heard his name offered him the chance to prove his identity in a game of chess. He beat the officer and was released.
kJVM4 TIL 22 of the 50 oldest living people were born in Japan.
wLDvJ TIL that after the pandemic began, many investors purchased the wrong Zoom stock, getting shares in a defunct Chinese hardware company, instead of the calling app, Zoom Video Communications. This meant that the wrong Zoom stock price soared by 1800% before the SEC stepped in.
JYEPl TIL: More than half of yakuza are now over 50 and 10% are over 70 as a result of an ageing population and police crackdowns
KY9xG TIL stock trader Jesse Livermore predicted the 1929 crash, made a profit due to his prediction, and became a target until his eventual suicide in 1940