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TIL AOL and Yahoo!, which Verizon acquired for $9.2 billion in 2016, were effectively worthless by 2018.

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5n8r TIL Dan Rather was injected with heroin by a police officer, in a police station
v1Y7r TIL People with Capgras syndrome have an irrational belief that someone they know or recognize has been replaced by an imposter. Capgras syndrome is what's known as a delusional misidentification and is most commonly associated with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia.
PLZG TIL that the prostitute district in the ancient city of Pompeii included elaborate frescoes illustrating numerous sex positions which clients could choose from, including anal, 2000 years ago.
J1n14 TIL when US President McKinley was shot in Buffalo, the city's best surgeon Roswell Park, was operating on someone else in Niagra Falls. When they told him he was needed in Buffalo, he responded that he could not leave, even for the President of the United States. He was then told who had been shot.
ep6n4 TIL A British sea launched air raid in Nov 1940 on the docked Italian Mediterranean fleet at Taranto inadvertently influenced the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. The raid destroyed or damaged 6 key Italian ships for the loss of two planes, changing the tide of the war in the Med.