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TIL that Janeane Garofalo married writer Robert Cohen in 1991 as a joke, not realizing the marriage was legitimate for 21 years when Cohen tried to get marry someone else

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oOn7 TIL back in 2008 Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion. Yahoo declined and Bing was created.
e0mVJ TIL the dictionary isn't as much an instruction guide to the English language, as it is a record of how people are using it. Words aren't added because they're OK to use, but because a lot of people have been using them.
rRBJy TIL critics complained that a bronze statue of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal standing in San Francisco's Civic Center more closely resembled the Sumerian king Gilgamesh.
pXGG TIL inside NASA’s Juno probe, it has a plaque dedicated to Galileo with writing in his own hand, and 3 Lego mini figures (Galileo, the Roman god Jupiter, and his sister and wife, the goddess Juno) specially made by the Lego Company using aluminum.
pb48 TIL of the Rajneeshee bioterror attack, in 1984 a cult sprayed salmonella on doorknobs and food in a town in Oregon to poison people so they would be too sick to vote and the cult could take over the town. It was the largest biological attack in U.S. history