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TIL the first thing sold on the Internet (‘94) was a pizza from Pizza Hut

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JKXm TIL a man sold all his possessions including his clothes, went to Las Vegas and bet the whole lot ($136,000) on a single game of roulette with 50/50 odds, and won.
LQx1Z TIL about BonziBUDDY, a free virtual desktop assistant created in 1999. People called it spyware after it was found out to have collected user's personal information before serving them pop-up ads. Because of this, it had to pay $75k in fines, and was discontinued in 2004.
gbRL TIL: Pixar spent three years studying the physics of curly hair in order to correctly render Merida’s hair in “Brave”.
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KOnJ9 TIL that Gwyneth Paltrow marketed jade eggs for women to insert into their vaginas, and got sued for false claims and misleading information