Last month, I had shared 23 surprising and important things about the investing world that I think every investor should know of.

All these pieces of information come from my years of studying the market (now numbering over 10) and writing about it for the Motley Fool Singapore (three-and-a-half now).

Earlier in the day, I came across a new factoid that I thought was really worth sharing. So, here it is, the 24th entry in my growing list of surprising and important things about investing: