14 Trades facts
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Starting with an old cell phone a friend gave him, a 17-year-old used Craigslist to trade up 14 times over two years and eventually end up with a Porsche Boxster
Kyle Macdonald bartered his way from one red paperclip to a house in 14 online trades
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John Peter Zenger apprenticed with William Bradford for eight years beginning in 1711, learning the printing trade. He was 14 years old when he began.
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A man named Ranald MacDonald (not to be confused with the McDonald's mascot) was the first native English speaker to teach English to Japan. He taught it to 14 samurai after being captured and being sent to Nagasaki in 1848, a few years before Commodore Perry arrived to negotiate open trade.
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A man from Montreal did 14 trades, starting with a red paper clip and ended with a house
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In 2006, a Canadian blogger made a series of 14 trades. He started with a red paper clip and traded his way up to a house. The items in the trades included a fish pen, snow mobile, KISS snow globe and a paid role in a movie.
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Kyle MacDonald; a man who was able to trade a single paper clip for a house through a series of 14 online trades.
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In 1621, the Dutch East Indian Trading Company killed, enslaved, or deported 14,000 out of the 15,000 natives of the Banda Islands. It then gave the land to Dutch settlers, and imported slaves. To control the nutmeg market.
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A 14 year old paper boy collecting money for work was given a nickel as payment. After he felt the nickel was lighter than usual, he dropped it and the nickel opened, revealing a film with a series of numbers. The FBI linked the coin to a Russian spy who was later traded for Gary Powers.
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