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TIL: One of the most expensive books ever listed on Amazon was a biology textbook about flies selling for $23,698,655.98 USD- due to a competitive dynamic pricing algorithm gone mad; discovered by accident when a post doctoral student wanted to buy a copy of the out of print book.

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