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TIL that Match.com was sold in 1997 for only 8 million dollars. As of 2018, it's worth 2.1 billion.

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axbL TIL that sumo wrestlers of the lowest ranks must always wear wooden sandals in public. The clacking sound of their footsteps is a reminder to improve their skills.
W11o TIL In 2007, a Bosnian couple, unhappy with their marriages, began cheating on each other online. When they finally decided to meet their online lovers, they discovered they had been cheating on each other, with each other.
MeD58 TIL Steve from Blue's Clues left the show partly because he was losing his hair, not because he died
e0eOJ TIL that “MAS*H” still holds the record for the most-watched episode of a television series at a total of 105.97 million viewers on the series finale in the United States. It was the most watched televised broadcast from 1983 until Super Bowl XLIV in 2010.
pj68 TIL of a WWII German fighter pilot that shot down 352 enemy aircraft and crash landed 14 times, all due to mechanical failure or getting hit by debris from a plane he downed. Credited with having the most aerial combat victories, Erich Hartmann earned the nickname “Black Devil”.