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TIL Larry Page and Sergey Brin offered to sell Google for $1M and were rejected

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XEk88 TIL that Conrad Hester, in 1852 at the age of 103, became the earliest born person to ever be photographed.
mxY0R TIL While imprisoned for murdering 7 people in Australia, Ivan Milat "The Backpacker Killer" cut off his little finger with a plastic knife in 2011 in order to send it by mail to the High Court of Australia.
grwGX TIL Hiroshima’s streetcar network was reopened three days after the atomic bombing of the city
nWKD7 TIL that under New York City, on the lower concourse of Grand Central Station, there’s a windowless, 440-seat oyster and seafood bar that has been serving customers since the terminal’s opening in 1913. Except for brief closures for a fire in 1997 and COVID-19 it has operated continuously.
AD95d TIL of "slow television"—live, nonstop TV coverage of an ordinary event in its complete length. Slow TV was popularized by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation's 7-hour broadcast of the train ride from Bergen to Oslo in 2009, and a 134-hour broadcast of the MS Nordnorge's coastal voyage in 2011.