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TIL of the Giant GRB Ring which is a ring of 9 gamma-ray bursts. It is 5.6 BILLION light years across.

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9wMkr TIL Universal Music once owned Uber.com and sold the domain to Uber (originally UberCab.com). They cashed out in the company’s A Round for $863,000, and the Wall Street Journal calculated that would be worth $532 million at the IPO of Uber
epaWD TIL that, contrary to popular belief, there is only one known instance where pirates buried their treasure. William Kidd buried his treasure on Gardiner Island before he was hanged. The myth of buried pirate treasure was later popularized by novels like Treasure Island.
R7k9w Blood type, metabolism, exercise, shirt color and even drinking beer can make individuals especially delicious to mosquitoes.
w1Q8 TIL That “Something” by the Beatles, and “Layla” by Eric Clapton are both about the same woman.
lgm7 TIL in 1925, Henry Ford told the NYT that ethyl alcohol is “the fuel of the future”. There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There’s enough alcohol in one year’s yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years.“