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TIL Blockbuster turned down a chance to purchase Netflix for $50 million in 2000.

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KprJ TIL that FDR prepared a speech for Jefferson Day on April 13, 1945 - the day after he died. His final words were to be: “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.”
rRpW4 TIL Evaniidae, better known as Ensign Wasps are a type of wasp which doesn't sting humans and are a sign of roaches living nearby which they prey on by laying eggs in roach eggs and their larvae eats the roach eggs.
XR9E TIL that science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein and his wife claim that Scientology is the result of a bar bet between Heinlein and L. Ron Hubbard.
W61X TIL McDonalds has closed down in six countries (Bermuda, Barbados, Bolivia, Jamaica, Iceland and Montenegro)
QMEp TIL John Bramblitt is a blind painter. How does he know what he’s doing? First he uses fabric paint to create raised outlines, and then he can actually identify paint colors by their texture.