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TIL back in 2008 Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion. Yahoo declined and Bing was created.

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rWje TIL that 2000 residents in Ramsar, Iran, receive an average of 10x the safe background radiation dose without any increase in cancer rates: several times more radiation than found in Pripyat, the ghost town near the Chernobyl power plant.
j6kxQ TIL The Japanese game show Takeshi's Castle, which aired from 1986 to 1990, involving challenges and painful entertainment, inspired countless physical challenge game shows still popular today
1am58 TIL Korean people in Shilla Dynasty (~A.D 8) used a uniquely shaped d14 die to play drinking games that included commands like “chug 3 shots at once” or “have your nose smacked by folks.”
GAl91 TIL about Empires of the Deep, an $130 million mermaid movie from 2011 that's never been released
WJMA TIL Dock Ellis once threw a no-hitter while tripping balls on LSD. He claimed to have seen Richard Nixon and Jimi Hendrix, and the footage of the game was locked away because it was “an embarrassment to the league.”