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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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5YG7D TIL that the German national anthem's first verse (no longer sung on official occasions) mentions 3 rivers and a strait, all of which exist entirely outside the current borders of Germany.
RdWa TIL A Green Bay Packers fan regularly donated blood in order to afford tickets to games. He later found out that he had a potentially deadly blood disease that was only preventable through blood donation. He had without knowing it been saving his life the entire time.
Y79jP TIL that Earth’s oxygen is primarily produced by the ocean.
gMVaD TIL about The Freedom Riders. Buses filled with black and white would travel to the south to test the law that banned segregation on interstate travel. They were attacked and firebombed then assaulted numerous times.
XEmVr TIL Prior to the handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997, UK officials considered building a new city in Northern Ireland, and resettling the entire population of Hong Kong on the Magilligan Peninsula near Coleraine