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TIL Bebo was bought for $1 million by the same people who sold it for $850 million 5 years earlier

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d86PZ TIL that researchers at Yale managed to restore some function to disembodied pig brains.
R7xej TIL that the earliest example of Japanese Tentacle Erotica dates back more than 200 years ago
6vYQ TIL that on its way back from deployment in the Persian Gulf in 2002, the aircraft carrier USS John Stennis stopped in Freemantle, Australia, where her sailors wore out the sex workers at a local brothel, forcing it to close temporarily.
MW4V TIL Princess Diana stated her bulimia started “the week after we got engaged.” “My husband put his hand on my waistline and said: ‘Oh, a bit chubby here, aren’t we?’ and that triggered off something in me.“
16kPV TIL: upon selling the ‘Lord Of The Rings’ movie rights to United Artists in 1968, J.R.R. Tolkien strictly forbade that Disney would ever become involved. When referring to Disney’s pictures he said“some have given me nausea.”