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TIL: In 2018, Samsung had a historic "Fat-Finger" error where it accidentally gave every employee $9 million worth of shares in the company. The total amount distributed was $100billion more than 30x their market cap. Within 37minutes, 16 employees sold and the stock tanked 11%.

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Y76LA TIL: Self replicating probes or spacecraft, also called Von Neumann probes was a concept theorized by the mathematician. He argued that this is the most efficient method of space exploration/mining as they can adapt. The concept has been used in various media such as Mass Effect, Star Trek, etc.
xLGo TIL It costs around 2.75 million dollars to make an episode of The Walking Dead, and it pulls in 11 million in commercial revenues for a profit of 8 million an episode
XgVk TIL a ring given from mother to son in 1974 while she was dying from cancer was lost two weeks later while he was boating on the Cooper River, SC. 39 years later, a diver found the ring underwater and returned it to the man, who was in the hospital dying from cancer.
81lX TIL during 1936 Berlin Olympic games, the Nazis ridiculed the US for relying on “non-human black auxiliaries.” American black athlete Jesse Owens went on to win 4 gold medals and beat a German at Long Jump in front of Hitler. Four years after Owens’ death, a street in Berlin was renamed after him.
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