- TIL that in 1720's England, at the height of stock market frenzy among the public, a company raised £2000 by selling shares for, quote, "an undertaking of great advantage but no-one to know what it is". http://www.historic-uk.com/historyuk/historyofengland/south-sea-bubble/ 25 comments economy
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