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TIL that the “I’m Feeling Lucky” feature in Google search actually cost Google $110 million a year as 1% of all searches use this feature and bypass all advertising.

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GYgag TIL that the grass at Wimbledon was kept two inches long until 1949 when an English player was bitten by a snake.
GYDnN TIL that Godzilla fought the Avengers. From 1977 to 1979, Marvel ran a 24-issue comic book series featuring Godzilla, which saw him square off against both the Avengers and the Fantastic Four.
6Zn8 TIL that “point blank range” doesn’t inherently mean “close range”.
a8LZb TIL that the human-dog relationship goes back many thousands of years. A skeleton of a dog, buried 14,000 years ago, was found next to that of two people. The dog skeleton shows that it survived a serious infection as a puppy. Had humans not frequently fed and cleaned the dog, it would have died.
996m TIL diamond really has no value. De Beers created an ad that convinced generations of young men and women that diamonds are valuable and synonymous with love