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TIL Blockbuster declined several offers to buy Netflix for $50 million. Netflix is now worth $2 billion.

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VMl5Q TIL that due to Bengal famine in 1770 almost 10 million people died in Bengal in 4 years eliminating 1/3rd of the population. This led to huge reduction in land Revenues of the East India Company which then influenced British to pass Tea act to reduce its troubles which led to Boston Tea Party.
Epdo TIL that prisoners on Greenland are allowed to leave their cells between 06.30am-09.30pm, work, visit relatives, have their own cell key, and use firearms.
l714r TIL The Oldest Living Man on Planet Earth (113) Says the Secret to a Long Life is Drinking Alcohol Everyday
QlO9 TIL- An unknown American soldier escaped from a Japanese massacre in 1941 and carved it into a rock before being caught, and beheaded
JRol TIL that in 1947 James Hanes of the Hanes brand, helped to sterilize over 7,600 people in North Carolina because they were deemed “unworthy of having children”.