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TIL that only about 10% of stock trades are done by actual humans. The remainder is done by high frequency trading algorithms and day trading bots.

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rRry0 TIL that the made up design for a character in A Bugs Life was found on a real beetle 8 years later
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D1Jrp TIL the largest sum paid for a painting by Giovanni Boldini (€2.1 million) was for one found in an unoccupied and decadent Paris apartment frozen in time since 1942. The painting of his mistress had sat unseen for 68 years after her family fled the Nazi's to never return (rent paid til their death).
W7N4N TIL that Mao’s last wife, Jiang Qing (also know as Madame Mao) last words in her suicide note was, “Chairman, your student and fighter is coming to see you!"
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