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TIL that a study conducted by a Swiss university showed that stockbrokers are more reckless and manipulative than diagnosed psychopaths.

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PrBO TIL that Darwin predicted the existence of a moth in Madagascar 45 years before it was seen, and 150 years before it was scientifically publishable.
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