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TIL Yahoo owned Geocities, paying $3.9 billion for it in 1999, shutting down the US platform in 2009, then the Japan platform down in 2019.

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jNr9v TIL That Tetris is the best selling video game of ALL TIME.
QoGE TIL: Nate Horton is the first (and likely to remain only) NHL player to be credited with a goal in an NHL game which he technically did not play.
v1yXR TIL a pitbull mix named Dosha, following being hit by a car, was shot in the head by a police officer in order to stop the dog’s suffering. At an animal control center, her body was put in a freezer. Two hours later, she was found alive. Dosha was taken into surgery, and survived the ordeal.
W7veo TIL the 1983 film "Taking Tiger Mountain" was based on William S. Burroughs' 1979 novel "Blade Runner: a Movie," which was originally a film treatment for Alan E. Nourse's 1973 novel "The Bladerunner" (the title of which was used for the otherwise unrelated 1982 film "Blade Runner").
E1nVX TIL Alcatraz had some of the best food in the federal prison system including chili dogs, butter-drenched potatoes, pork chops, biscuits and gravy & banana pudding because the warden believed “most trouble in prison is caused by bad food.” The prison staff ate the same food as the prisoners.