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TIL about "bear raids" in finance, which is a term used to describe a situation where an investor, group, or entity attempts to influence the price of stocks downward in order to either profit from a short position or acquire a new long position at a lower price.

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rRKLx TIL the Burke & Wills expedition of 1860, Australia’s own Lewis & Clarke. Burke, Wills and 17 others set off to cross Australia South-North, from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria, a 3250km journey one way. Both men died. Only one, an Irish soldier named John King completed the journey back.
p8yN8 TIL that domestic pigs ejaculate for 6 minutes on average, with one particular specimen reaching 31 minutes.
01e5 TIL That you don’t really need to brush twice a day AFTER meals. Brushing is really just about cleaning the plaque which houses microbes on your teeth. It’s better to clear the plaque before meals so that your meals don’t feed the plaque which feeds the teeth-damaging microbes.
8a58b TIL that the South Korean military established "comfort women" prostitution facilities in Vietnam and massacred more than 300,000 Vietnamese people during the Vietnam War.
6xY7 TIL there stands a castle in the Czech Republic that to this day has a moat filled with BEARS. It’s called the “Bear Moat” and it was first filled with bears in 1707, if not earlier.