I just came across this fantastic article on another website which is supposedly about a man who invested $800 in the stock market, and within two weeks had amassed a fortune of $320,000,000. He was busted for insider trading, and when asked how he accomplished such an astonishing feat of investing, he said that he was a time-traveller from the year 2256 and was merely using historical information to make his investment strategy.

Isn’t that how Biff turns into a millionaire in Back to the Future 2? But I think he does it with betting, rather than with investing.

In any event, one of the commenters on this site claims that the story was proven to be a hoax. Which is not surprising since it came from the Weekly World News. In any event, here’s the more complete version of the original news story which this is from on Yahoo.