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TIL some whales hunted in the 19th Century are still alive today

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QxdL TIL In 2005, an inexperienced trader at a Japanese bank tried to sell 1 share of J-Com stock for ¥640,000. He accidentally sold 640,000 shares for ¥1 each; the equivalent of selling $3bil worth of shares for the price of $5,000.
rNR4w TIL there's a species of invasive crayfish that was discovered in the 90's, is entirely made of clones, and an unknown origin
0xr1 TIL in the 1970s after Boeing fired 63,000 employees in Seattle alone, someone put up this billboard: “Will the last person leaving Seattle - Turn out the lights.”
awNV0 TIL that when Ngawang Namgyal, the creator of Bhutan as a nation, died in 1651, his successors kept his death secret for 54 years claiming he was on an extended retreat, because they feared that his death would lead to Bhutan returning to warlordism.
XdAP TIL That Europeans in the Middle Ages never actually thought the Earth was flat. The idea that they did is called the Myth of the Flat Earth.