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TIL that someone did the math and the more Tom Cruise runs, the better his movies are.

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b68jp TIL that in 2005, Japanese investment bank Mizuho Securities lost the equivalent of $285 million in just a few minutes due to one typo. The firm tried to sell 1 share for 610,000 yen but ended up selling 610,000 shares for 1 yen each. Mizuho was almost bankrupted.
MeO8V TIL the word “leopard” is a Greek compound of leon (“lion”) and pardos (“male panther”), as it was believed in antiquity leopards were hybrids of the two.
WNNd TIL it has been scientifically proven that praise rather than criticism is the best way to help employees improve
9wr97 TIL about "Pigcasso" the first non-human artist to be given her own art exhibition and for holding the record for most expensive artwork by an animal ever sold
oOvo TIL we now know rats react differently when men are around than they do women, potentially invalidating 100 years of behavioural studies using lab rats