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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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XEb66 TIL that the New York Times has made some truly terrible predictions over the years, from Hitler being “not genuine” about anti-semitism, to approximating in 1903 that it would take between 1 - 10 million years before humans would create airplanes.
LJOm TIL the Screen Actors Guild strike of 1999 prevented the use of live actors in advertising. Struggling to boost sales and needing an ad campaign, an insurance company turned to CGI to replace the actor. The Geico Gecko was born.
gMa8W TIL in 2017 raccoons and chimps were put through the Aesop's Fable test, to see if they could learn to displace water to get food from a container. Many succeeded: the raccoons used their hands to manipulate the container in creative ways, and one chimp simply peed into the container (which worked).
QN8jL TIL about a painkiller present in human saliva called Opiorphin which is stronger than Morphine.
mxKjM TIL rain on concrete or soil causes pockets of gas that were stored to be released because they get softened, which gives that familiar ‘after-rain’ smell