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TIL When Paypal was started they gave $20 to everyone that made an account, and $20 for every person they referred. This cost them 60-70 million dollars but they had 100,000 costumers in the month PayPal went online

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OJP7 TIL the first Troll doll was created by a danish fisherman who could not afford giving his daughter a christmas gift. When the other children saw it they all wanted one as well.
lBRA TIL that mountain goats aren’t actually goats. They are antelopes.
yeBw TIL that in his first appearance, Waylon Smithers was mistakenly animated with the wrong colour and was made to be African American. It was later described as an “extreme tan”.
QN4Rp TIL Tolkien assisted on the Oxford Dictionary's first edition, focused on 'W' words waggle to warlock. He "learned more in those two years than in any other"; and certain etymologies continued to puzzle him for years, with many pages of notes written later on 'walrus' for a lecture at Leeds
JDkQ TIL that Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.