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TIL Google purchased the domain name Gmail.com from Garfield Comics.

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R5x17 TIL that before becoming the mayor of Flavortown, Guy Fieri was a TV pitchman for car mufflers
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R7lNl TIL in the UK it is illegal to find and keep buried treasure to yourself. You are required by law to report the find to a coroner and then offer it for sale to a national museum. Failure to do so can lead to imprisonment.
M7orV TIL Actor Gerard Butler paid for bee venom injections twice and ended up in hospital both times.
4kkVb TIL that Queen Elizabeth II had two severely disabled first cousins who were publicly pronounced dead in 1940 and 1961 respectively, but actually lived in a care home with no visits or support from the royal family until their actual deaths in 1986 and 2014.