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TIL Yahoo! paid Mark Cuban $5.7billion for Broadcast.com - a service that has since been discontinued.

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neM8P TIL that the mathematics behind Wifi was discovered by scientists trying to find mini black holes.
rY4W TIL researchers printed out a beating mouse heart using a modified printer with cells in the ink cartridge.
WkGEo TIL that in Portugal, there is a party where children are encouraged to smoke
oeJA TIL that in 1941, a British physicist guessed the major technical specifications of a Nazi bomber radio guidance system based solely on its code name, “Wotan”, and created effective countermeasures before it was even deployed.
P1PNe TIL that the British were the first to call the sport "soccer," as a shortening of "association football"