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  1. I got curious, and... the guy who invented short selling did it in 1609 to try to break the Dutch East India Company's monopoly. But it didn't work, so he discovered you could sail around Cape Horn instead. Huh.
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      redditors would've loved this guy en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Le_Maire
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