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TIL that Raven is a chimpanzee. It picked stocks by throwing darts and became the 22nd most successful manager in the US. This chimpanzee created its own index called MonkeyDex, which grew by 213% in 1999, outperforming the performance of over 6000 professional brokers on Wall Street.

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