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TIL Instagram only had 13 employees when Facebook bought it for close to one billion dollars in 2012

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VMRD8 TIL Queen bees face increased chance of execution if they mate with two males rather than one. A colony may kill their queen because of the quality of offspring.
ePD TIL that the book of Proverbs, which contains many maxims condemning adultery, was written by a man who had 700 wives, 300 concubines, and an affair with the Queen of Sheba.
9YvBm TIL Greenland sharks have an estimated lifespan of up to six hundred years.
9YaZM TIL someone on the set of titanic spiked the seafood chowder with PCP and got dozens of cast and crew members high including director James Cameron
JLd1 TIL Nimrod was originally a great hunter in the Book of Genesis. In 1932, when Bugs Bunny called infamously bad hunter Elmer Fudd “nimrod” sarcastically in a Looney Tunes short, people missed the Biblical reference and assumed the word was just a generic insult.