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TIL Chuck Berry is still alive and about to release an album in 2017. His first in 38 years!

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QJQk6 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.
6EkYw TIL that KGB spy Oleg Lyalin was caught when he was pulled over for drunk driving and bragged to the police officer that he was a KGB spy. He went on to defect, exposing over 100 other spies in England.
0wknA TIL that scholars of Aramaic argue that the Qur'an is mistranslated: the original Aramaic word doesn't promise martyrs an award of 72 virgins in heaven, it promises them 72 raisins.
ej1D TIL that the most successful pirate raid in history was Henry Avery’s capture of the Indian treasure ship Ganj-i-sawai in 1695. The plunder was £600,000 worth of jewels and precious metals, equivalent to £52.4 million or $81 million today.
p8MVN TIL: More than 2 million Americans still pay for an AOL dial-up subscription.