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TIL in 2008, Universal Music Group invested in a startup called Uber, a media-sharing platform that fizzled out quickly. UMG was left with the domain name and in 2010, Uber offered UMG 2% equity in the company for the domain. UMG sold its 2% stake back for $863,000 and its worth roughly $3.46B today

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x6x5b TIL Ruth Hana, the self-proclaimed "can lady", collected 1 million aluminum cans over a 30-year period, raising $75,000 for a variety of local charities. She then followed that up by collecting 1 million pop tabs before donating them to the Ronald McDonald House at the age of 92.
j4Lp TIL that in 2012, the founder of McAfee antivirus, John McAfee was asked if he personally uses McAfee anti-virus, he replied by saying “I take it off,” and that “It’s too annoying.”
OGvW4 TIL that the QED in KQED stands for quod erat demonstrandum which mathematicians used to end their proofs with
4kPjX TIL a Russian WWII survivor jumped ship in San Francisco, fled immigration, and lived for nearly 20 years in a Northern California redwood forest, where he built bark shelters that still stand today.
QNeM6 TIL The Turkish Army formerly issued fines to families of soldiers who committed suicide, demanding them to pay for the bullet that they used, although they abolished that practice under pressure