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TIL that founders of Youtube imagined it as a dating site and they even had a slogan for it: "Tune in, Hook up"

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ne9KG TIL Diamonds Shatter as easily as Glass. They are very Hard (scratch resistant) but have a Low Fracture Toughness.
YZnB TIL Stone Temple Pilots formed when singer Scott Weiland and guitarist Rob DiLeo met at a concert. They began discussing their girlfriends and eventually realized they were both dating the same girl. Instead of letting this come between them, they both dumped the girl, bonded over it and formed STP.
4xQo TIL Nigerian scammers once sold a fake airport to a major international bank for $242 million, and the scam wasn’t discovered until 3 years after the fact.
p8k0Q TIL that the different designations for groups of birds (Parliament of Owls, Murder of Crows...) largely came from a book from Middle Ages called The Book of Saint Albania. The designations are largely unused by scientist and birdwatchers, but are meant to describe the birds’ characters.
xbao TIL the average American child eats 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches before he/she graduates high school.