TIL in 2005 a typo nearly bankrupted one of Japan’s largest investment banks, Mizuho Securities. A broker mistakenly sold 610,000 shares at 1 yen each instead of 1 share at 610,000 yen. Attempts to cancel the trade failed. Mizuho lost over $225 million in minutes.
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news.bbc.co.uk
BBC News - Tokyo Stock Exchange told to pay 10.7bn yen damages
The Tokyo Stock Exchange is ordered to pay 10.7bn yen ($121m) in damages for failing to stop a trading error in 2005.
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TIL The Hotel Arbez was intentionally built by a businessman in 1863, in a race against time during a border dispute. Spanning France and Switzerland, it enabled smuggling as people and goods crossed freely inside.
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Submitted November 10, 2024 at 10:46AM by BezugssystemCH1903
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Wikipedia
Hotel Arbez
Hotel on the France–Switzerland border
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TIL that the 1985 film Back To The Future was almost noscriptd "Spaceman from Pluto" after executives at Universal didn't like the original noscript. In response, the film's producer, Steven Spielberg, sent them a memo thanking him for sending his wonderful "joke memo." The original noscript was kept.
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Submitted November 10, 2024 at 06:26PM by Rhino-Kid22
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Cbsnews
12 things you didn't know about "Back to the Future"
We relive the '80s classic through pictures as it celebrates 30 years since landing in theaters
TIL that in 2013, LG had an event in Seoul, where they would tie free phone coupons onto balloons and release them into the air. Participants ended up bringing BB guns and pointed staffs to try and get the balloons down. 20 people were injured because of this event.
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The Independent
LG promotional event which left 20 injured dubbed 'World War G'
Vouchers for free smartphones were attached to balloons but attendees brought BB guns to bring them down
TIL dolphins don’t just leave their dead behind. Mothers have been seen carrying their lifeless calves for days, even as they decompose, showing a terrible sense of loss.
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Submitted November 10, 2024 at 07:13PM by Fantastic-Anxiety-54
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Smithsonian Magazine
Study Suggests Dolphins and Some Whales Grieve Their Dead
An analysis of 78 instances of cetaceans paying attention to their dead suggests grief may be part of being a highly social animal
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TIL Chad Kroeger asked his stepfather to loan him CA$4,000 so that Nickelback could record the band’s first demo. Half the money was spent to record the EP, while Kroeger spent the other half on magic mushrooms to resell.
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Wikipedia
Nickelback
Canadian rock band
TIL the 22nd Amendment, in addition to limiting the president to two terms, also states that, if the president's successor serves for more than two years in their first term, they can only be re-elected once.
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Submitted November 10, 2024 at 09:18PM by VLenin2291
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constitution.congress.gov
U.S. Constitution - Twenty-Second Amendment | Resources | Constitution Annotated | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
The original text of the Twenty-Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.
TIL about the theory that myxosporeans, A microscopic parasite, may have originally been a cancer that evolved into it's own independent species.
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Submitted November 10, 2024 at 06:22PM by RecsRelevantDocs
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Quanta Magazine
Can Species Evolve From Cancers? Maybe. Here’s How.
Researchers agree it’s a long shot, but transmissible cancers could theoretically evolve into independent species. Certain weird parasites might be living proof.
TIL Microsoft released the AI chatbot Tay (short for "Thinking About You"), designed to mimic a 19-year-old American, on March 23, 2016. It became a PR disaster when it learned offensive language from trolls, causing Microsoft to shut it down after just 16 hours and sparking debates on AI ethics.
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Wikipedia
Tay (chatbot)
chatterbot made by Microsoft
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TIL the highest rated episode of 'Breaking Bad' (Ozymandias, S5E14) and the lowest rated episode (Fly, S3E10) had the same director and writer ( Rian Johnson and Moira Walley-Beckett)
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Submitted November 11, 2024 at 12:27AM by funmighthold
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Wikipedia
List of Breaking Bad episodes
Wikimedia list article
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TIL after Ryan Murphy’s pilot about a transgender father was rejected, he created Glee as a “wholesome comedy that the entire family can watch”
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Submitted November 10, 2024 at 11:44PM by meyerovb
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Pretty/Handsome
television series
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TIL that Super Bowl XXVII was originally going to be in Tempe, Arizona. However, due to state blocking Martin Luther King day from being recognized, the NFL moved the game to the Rose Bowl, in Pasadena, California instead.
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Submitted November 11, 2024 at 03:57AM by Super_Goomba64
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Super Bowl XXVII
Super Bowl XXVII was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Buffalo Bills and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Dallas Cowboys to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1992 season.…
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TIL Ray Parker Jr, writer, composer and performer of the Ghostbusters theme song, is afraid of ghosts - contrary to his claim that he “ain’t afraid of no ghosts”.
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Submitted November 11, 2024 at 02:01AM by cmorencie
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MusicRadar
“I’m afraid of ghosts! I’m not the guy who’s gonna do anything to a ghost”: Ray Parker Jr shares the story of how he had just three…
When a session’s running late, in your neighbourhood, who you gonna call?
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TIL of 'Sokushinbutsu', ascetic Japanese buddhist monks who practiced self-mummification; they would prepare for death by eating a diet rich in pine needles and resin, paired with severe dehydration, until they 'hardened' in place.
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Sokushinbutsu
Buddhist mummy
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Today I learned that it is illegal to sell rulers with only inches on them in Japan
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TIL: King Edward VII commissioned a custom "chair" that let him "pleasure" multiple women simultaneously. Three were made, with one "original" and the two others being replicas, one of which is housed in a museum for sex devices.
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Submitted November 11, 2024 at 09:10AM by zahrul3
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Wikipedia
Love chair
Chair created for Edward VII
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TIL that the longest democratically elected communist government in history was the 34 year Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front rule in the Indian state of West Bengal
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Submitted November 11, 2024 at 09:33AM by Perfect-Werewolf-102
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Al Jazeera
End of an era in Bengal
The three-decade rule of the communist party in West Bengal has tasted the bitterness of defeat for the first time.
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TIL that the first recorded attempt at flight was made by a monk named Eilmer of Malmesbury in 1010. Using wings attached to his arms, he jumped from a tower and flew for a short distance before crashing. This experiment predates the Wright brothers by nearly 900 years.
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Eilmer of Malmesbury
English monk
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TIL That the reason most people did not smile in old photographs was due to long exposure times, ranging anywhere from 20 seconds to 20 mins the subjects had to hold perfectly still.
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Submitted November 11, 2024 at 03:03PM by myvotedoesntmatter
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History Facts
Why Are People Never Smiling in Old Photographs?
Here’s the truth behind those stern expressions in early photos.
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TIL about Belphegor's prime, 1000000000000066600000000000001, a palindromic prime number with 666 at its heart and 13 zeros on either side. It was named after one of the Princes of Hell, who was charged with helping people make ingenious inventions and discoveries.
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Submitted November 11, 2024 at 06:43AM by Djerrid
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Belphegor's prime
the prime number 10³⁰+666×10¹⁴+1
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TIL in Italy almost half of people have tattoos (48%). The US is third in the world with 46% having tattoos.
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Submitted November 11, 2024 at 04:32PM by Double-decker_trams
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WorldAtlas
Which Country's Residents Have the Most Tattoos?
Italy, Sweden, and the US lead global tattoo trends. Learn how culture, regret, and health concerns shape tattoo popularity in these countries.
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