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TIL Massachusetts Republicans are more liberal than Arkansas Democrats

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6K1X TIL in 2015, a former Google employee purchased the Google domain for $12 because of an error. Google offered to pay him $6006.13 (that spells “Google”) to have it back. When he said he would donate it to charity, they doubled it to $12,000.
VMbxQ TIL that we don't actually know how general aesthetics work, or how they are able to induce unconsciousness without shutting down other body or brain functions
4XbJ TIL that ARTIE, the strongest man in the world, does the voice of KAHN on king of the hill, and he’s not even asian
ZpkRG TIL that in Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, each starter has a 1 in 8,192 chance of being shiny, and you can see if it's shiny on the selection screen. All three being shiny at once is theoretically possible, but has never been recorded — the odds are 1 in 550 billion.
mxJOE TIL John Gotti's 13 year old son was struck by a car and killed when he darted out into a street on a mini motorbike. The driver of the vehicle, a neighbor whose son had previously slept over at the Gotti house, disappeared 5 months later. He was allegedly shot in the head and dissolved in acid