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TIL that in 1999 the founders of Google actually tried to sell their website to Excite for $1 million- Excite turned them down.

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1WQd TIL that two 6-year olds were suspended from school for playing cops and robbers and forming their fingers into an imaginary gun
RG06 TIL Porn accounts for 30% of total internet content, and around 10% of all internet use. For perspective, porn sites attract more visitors each month than Amazon, Netflix, and Twitter combined.
BroxK TIL In 1877 Frederick Douglass purchased close to ten acres of farmland and a mansion on the outskirts of the city of Washington in order to settle in the village of Anacostia. His final residence of Cedar Hill is seen as a metaphor for his life, signifying the heights that he rose to
W0oA TIL That there’s a whole demographic of “Homeless” Japanese youth who live and sleep solely in Internet Cafés.
rR9Q4 TIL a small town in southern Kyoto, Japan has a yearly festival and monument next to a shrine dedicated to Thomas Edison. He used the bamboo from the town Yawata for his filament in the lightbulbs which increased the use time from 40 hours to 1,000