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TIL NASA mapping satellites discovered Mayan ruins that were overgrown by the jungle

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mPnR TIL studies show that people eat worse than they normally would if the restaurant offers healthy alternatives. Merely seeing a healthy menu option satisfies the goal to be healthy.
epllJ TIL there were ticket scalpers for gladiator fights in Ancient Rome. Gladiators like Hermes were known to draw the largest crowds and brought in high profits for scalpers due to demand
D8Ap TIL a company called Excite turned down the opportunity to buy Google in 1999 for $1 million. Google’s founders then said they would take $750,000 only for Excite to pass a second time. Google now was a market cap of $167 billion.
x0d1 TIL that Nimrod, recorded in Genesis as “a mighty hunter before the Lord” is now used to mean a dimwitted or stupid person because of Bugs Bunny who sarcastically refers to Elmer Fudd as “nimrod,” an ironic connection between “mighty hunter” and “poor little Nimrod”, i.e. Fudd. No one got the joke.
p8EgG TIL Iceland was uninhabited until c. 870AD