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TIL that Pets.com, considered the most disastrous failure in dotcom history, went from IPO to liquidation in just 268 days, with $300 million of investment capital vanishing with the company’s collapse.

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5YoP9 TIL, "On an autumn night in 1978, 4 fast-food workers vanished from their shift. 41 years later, police still don't know who killed them."
16l9D TIL it’s Mourning Dove, not “Morning” Dove
awmlo TIL in 1930 a British anthropologist discovered bowling by ancient Egyptians
DQEvr TIL that there is a Maori clan made up of descendants of a Spaniard who emigrated in the 19th century.