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TIL the city of Provo, UT invested $40M in iProvo, a broadband network for the city. They never made a profit, and sold in 2013 to Google for $1.

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woNoY TIL about ''execution of nine relations'' from china in which a criminal's spouse, kids, grandkids, parents, grandparents ,cousins, aunts and uncles, inlaws would all be killed. Usually only used in cases of treason though sometimes this was used for crimes as mundane as libel.
9oXm TIL there is a full-sized replica of Stonehenge in Texas, appropriately named “Stonehenge II”
9YBMG TIL that once you've solved 5,472,730,538 games of Sudoku, you've solved 'em all.
R7B86 TIL: Egg tempera is a painting medium that uses egg yolk to bind pigments. It was a ubiquitous technique during the early Italian Renaissance, when it was considered the standard for portable easel paintings. Botticelli, Raphael, and Andrew Wyeth all painted with tempera.
GYMDj TIL If the Andromeda Galaxy were brighter, it would look 6 times wider than the moon in our night sky