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TIL Google offered to buy Friendster in 2003 for 30 million dollars. The offer was rejected and is considered to be one of the worst Silicon Valley blunders of all time.

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Z8jZ4 TIL That today in 1954 for 5 minutes, thousands of baby frogs fell from the sky after being picked up by a tornado and landed in Sutton park in Birmingham.
Xejr TIL that members of congress receive access to classified intelligence information without going through a background check – and many of them wouldn’t pass it if they did.
Y7v07 TIL Cat Stevens wrote The First Cut Is The Deepest
4aO6 TIL Yoda’s full name – never revealed in the films – is “Minch Yoda.” George Lucas deliberately decided to leave him with just one name to enhance the air of mystery and power around him.
WkvK9 TIL about the Book Wheel. A 16th century invention that could hold various books at any given time for readers to rotate through and choose from. The seated reader could use hand or foot controls to move to the desired book.