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TIL During a scrapped Conan O'Brien skit, Conan was supposed to cut off someone talking about star wars vs star trek, but didn’t, and they spoke for 6 minutes straight in quite an impressive explanation the Conan staff wasn’t expecting.

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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.
KBw4 TIL that British paratrooper Joshua Leavey took on Taliban fighters while running through heavy machine gun fire multiple times in order to rescue an injured US Marine Captain.
yQG5X TIL the Black Death was originally spread to Europe in the 14th century by Mongols catapulting infected corpses into an Italian trading outpost in Crimea, who fled and unwittingly carried the disease back to Sicily where it proceeded to wipe out up to 60% of Europe's population in four years
ePan TIL Winona Ryder was bullied in high school for her ‘tomboy’ appearance. Years later, one of her bullies asked her for an autograph. “I asked her if she remembered me and she said that she sort of remembered beating a kid up. I said to her, 'Yeah, well that was me so go fuck yourself’.”
pKpG TIL of George Stinney, the youngest person ever executed in America, at 14. He was wrongly charged for murder after finding the bodies of two white girls in South Carolina.