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TIL that 95% of the world’s financial transactions is speculation.

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d8RQ TIL that in 2010 we sent 192 000 text messages a second, and that American teen girls send a 100 texts messages a day, on average.
nep0r TIL a man called Roger Sperry performed brain experiments on cats and monkeys. He found that if the two brain hemispheres were not connected they would function independently of one another, and even enable the split-brain of the animals to memorize double the information.
VMprp TIL of Albert Stevens, who in 1945 was misdiagnosed as having terminal cancer and injected with plutonium isotopes as part of a radiation experiment. He survived exposure to the highest known radiation dose in any human and lived for another 20 years.
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Oop4R TIL Bulla Felix was a Roman bandit leader active around 205–207 AD. Bulla is known for not killing his victims, stealing only some of their money, employing artists, disguising himself as Roman officials, and leading a 600 man regiment of runaway slaves and free men.