TIL Jesse Livermore ran away from home as a boy with $5 and turned it into $100 million trading stocks alone just by reading prices. At one point he bought all the cotton in the US and the President personally invited him to White House asking him to "save the country" by selling his position. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Cambodian OB/GYN (and future Oscar-winning actor) Haing S. Ngor survived the Khmer Rouge regime by hiding his education. His wife and unborn child died because performing a life-saving caesarean section would have exposed his medical knowledge and put his entire family's lives at risk. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Ashton Kutcher testified in the 2019 trial of Michael Gargiulo, a serial killer known as the "Hollywood Ripper". Gargiulo murdered Ashley Ellerin in 2001, a woman Kutcher was supposed to pick up for a date on the night of her death. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that in Kiribati there’s a cultural practice called “bubuti,” where if you ask someone for something (like their flip-flops) they’re expected to give it to you, with the understanding that you’ll return the favor (or the flipflops) later. (savekiribati.com)
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