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TIL Americans spend 30% less on Father’s Day gifts than on Mother’s Day gifts

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1a8ar TIL that an autistic socially awkward day trader helped spark the 2010 flash crash of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, despite earning $70M over several years Navinder Singh Sarao continued living in his parents basement and his biggest purchase was a used Volkswagen for under $10,000.
ANYyo TIL people who learn to drive as teenagers during gas price shocks like the oil crises of the 1970s drive less even 20 years later in life
R7aGl TIL that most rotisserie chicken is sold as a "loss leader," which means stores like Costco ($4.99 per chicken since 2009) sell at a loss, solely so customers buy other higher-margin products.
JYwem TIL in 2010, a papyrus document featuring Cleopatra's handwriting went on display at Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute. The document refers to a tax break for a friend of her husband Mark Antony. Cleopatra signed it with a Greek word meaning "make it happen".
rNRw0 TIL that before exponential notation was invented, mathematicians used words to represent exponents. For instance, 2^8 had the name Zenzizenzizenzic, the word with the most Z's in the English language, which means "square of squares squaredly".