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TIL that Thomas Peterffy was told by NASDAQ that his algorithmic trading was illegal because it lacked a keyboard so he created a robot with fingers to type all trades on the keyboard which made it legal - “the robot typed so fast it sounded like a machine gun.”

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v1Mlx TIL the many uses of the "horse apple tree" (Osange orange). If you grew up in rural Texas, you probably know the fruit and tree
8al9V TIL researchers trained pigeons to discriminate between paintings by Picasso and by Monet. They won the humorous Ig Nobel Prize in psychology for their work.
A4Ga TIL Of “chemo curls”, a documented phenomenon that can occur after chemotherapy where one’s hair structure can completely change from blonde to dark and/or straight to curly and vise versa.
Dpe TIL Human Hair has about the same tensile strength as steel of the same width
b9VLp TIL that there is something called the Capgras Syndrome where a person has an irrational belief that a familiar person like a family or friend has been replaced with an exact duplicate, in other words, an impostor.