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TIL that in 1999, a chimpanzee named Raven became the 22nd most successful money manager in the USA by selecting stocks with darts, outperforming over 6,000 professional brokers.

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OGex7 Today I learned that all planets are round because of gravitational forces.
K8x4 TIL in 1958 a Cessna was flown continually for over two months, refueled via truck matching its speed on a desert highway
O9j4 TIL That in the game Myth II: Soulblighter, due to a bug in the installer, if the game wasn’t installed into the default directory and instead into a different one, when attempting to uninstall it the uninstaller would delete the computer’s entire hard drive.
QN946 TIL that during the Middle Ages, animals were judged as if they were humans. It was even possible to sue any kind of animal, and authorities would catch and bring them to trial. They would then receive a sentence based on the alleged crime committed.
lELK TIL That the state of Alaska has the highest amount of sexual offenders per million citizens than any other state.