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TIL There was a man, Mansa Musa, the wealthiest person in history, who spent so much gold personally in Egypt that he devalued gold and destroyed the country’s economy.

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Yp91d TIL a study of peer-reviewed journals in the field of genomics found that 19.6% of studies contained data errors created by Microsoft Excel. That's because some genes with names like SEPT2 (Septin 2) were automatically being converted by Excel into dates.
wJKY TIL When Perelman solved the most important problem in topology he was awarded the Fields Medal and Millennium Prize of one million dollars. He declined both saying: “The main reason is my disagreement with the organized mathematical community. I don’t like their decisions, I consider them unjust.”
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