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TIL Google has been buying, on average, more than one company per week since 2010.

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6XDw TIL Antarctic explorer Lawrence Oates sacrificed his life for his crew by walking to his death in −40 °F. His last words were “I am just going outside and may be some time.”
E1ajX TIL the idea caffeinated coffee & tea dehydrate you is misunderstood. It's true that caffeine can be a weak diuretic - (stimulates urination) - but the loss is negated by the water in the drink itself. You're ingesting more fluids than urinating when drinking a cup of caffeinated coffee or tea.
VMNW8 TIL that Peter Gabriel intended for the 1986 song "In Your Eyes" to be the last track on his album "So", but due to the prominent bass line and the limitations of vinyl records, it had to be placed earlier on the record. This was rectified on the CD release of the album.
98Lp TIL from 1991 to 2000, 90% of the worlds LSD was produced by one man
woe17 TIL the land Central Park is on was formerly a majority-Black settlement named Seneca Village. The land was seized through eminent domain, razed, and the settlement was largely forgotten until the publication of "The Park and the People: A History of Central Park" in 1992.