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TIL that Microsoft had offered to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion in 2008. Yahoo rejected the offer stating it massively undervalued the company.

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JYvl TIL that Brad Pitt’s crazy, rapid speech in Twelve Monkeys was perfected by director Terry Gilliam taking away Pitt’s cigarettes.
X04l6 TIL the map of a Fly Brain closely matched the architecture used in current AI models
dGLQ TIL that when Parker Brothers tried to introduce a german version of Risk, the board game in which players try to dominate a map of world, the German government threatened to ban it on the grounds that it might encourage imperialist and militaristic impulses in the nation’s youth.
rGlM TIL biologists have revived 8-million-year-old bacterium that was extracted from Antarctic ice
W7X0X TIL in 1986 the city of Cleveland, OH attempted to break a world record releasing the most helium balloons at one time and ended up killing 2 men.