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eV1D TIL Blockbusters declined several offers to acquire Netflix for a mere $50 million. Netflix revenue for 2012 was $3.97 billion.
oBP7A TIL: Cornell University scientists have created a functioning guitar the size of a human blood cell.
wpjJ TIL that a 2 month-old baby boy named Ernest was raffled off at the 1909 World’s Fair in Seattle. No one claimed him with the winning ticket, and it’s unclear what happened to him.
b6J0E TIL that Starbucks incurred massive losses and failed miserably trying to expand into Australia.
kJ0Vd TIL the Normandy beach names of Utah & Omaha were selected at random, when a general asked two NCOs where they were from. The British & Canadian names were abbreviations for certain fish: goldfish, swordfish & jellyfish. Jelly was changed to Juno in honour of the wife of one of the officers