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TIL that the most expensive domain name is vacationrentals.com, which was bought for $35 million, beating out more commonly searched domains such as sex.com, porn.com, beer.com, etc.

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PY1ww TIL that architects can design a home or building with a glass structure that lets cool air in the bottom and releases warm air at its top. This is known as a solar chimney and works off similar principles of regular fire chimneys
69yX TIL: that Johnny Depp, Tom Cruise, Jason Patric, Keanu Reeves and John Travolta were considered for the role of Jim Morrison in the movie “The Doors” - Travolta was so popular with the original band that they even considered putting the band back together with Travolta on vocals.
DQr7Y TIL of the explorers Ejnar Mikkelsen and Iver Iversen who survived alone in Northern Greenland in 1911-12 while on a mission to recover documents from the previous Denmark expedition 1906 to 198.
8a5eX TIL that sperms don't swim. We have been wrong for the last 350 years. Using 3D microscopy technology were able to mathematically reconstruct the rapid movement of the sperm. The sperm body spins at the same time that the tail rotates around the swimming direction. Sperm drills into the fluid.
P1LBw TIL Edith Cowan, best known as the first Australian woman to serve as a member of parliament, lived a life of tragedy as a child. Her mother died when she was seven. At the age of 15, her father, Kenneth Brown, was executed for the murder of her stepmother, making her an orphan.