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P1jlZ TIL At the peak of its popularity, the South Sea Company stock price went up from £100 to £1000 within a year, even though nobody knew exactly what they were investing in. Although he mocked people who invested in the scam, Issac Newton owned £22,000 in stock(over 4 million in 2025 values)
QNv0p TIL The world's oldest love poem, The Love Song for Shu-Sin a.k.a. Istanbul 2461, was written in a cuneiform tablet and used in sacred fertility rituals.
VBNOZ TIL Someone has made a list of multiple films where a lone shoe is lost by a female character.
mxBKY TIL: In 49 states, inmates are charged for the costs of their own incarceration.
dDJYB TIL Jimi Hendrix was not encouraged in his musical talents as a child. He got his first guitar at the age of fifteen, and his first electric guitar a year later.