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TIL the Nokia ringtone is taken from a classical guitar piece called 'Gran Val' by Francisco Tarrega

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7oPb TIL in negotiations to sell, one of Reddit’s founders “determined to be a hard-negotiating 22-year-old, told Conde Nast that it couldn’t buy Reddit unless the founders each got $1 million.” He later said “A million dollars isn’t as much as I thought it was.”
VDyB TIL that the Italian government constructed a dam in 1959 despite multiple warnings of the instability of the region. In 1963, a landslide into the reservoir behind the dam triggered a tsunami over 800 ft high that breached the dam and killed nearly 2000 people, leaving a 200 ft deep impact crater.
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