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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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VDX0 TIL - The largest found ancient Egyptian cemetery had 54% blondes and redheads, with 87% light hair when light brown is included
D1rVv TIL the actor who played the killer in Boyz N Da Hood later became a Blood and was locked up for a double homicide. He was then murdered and his body was used for a satanic ritual
v1YpD TIL that Richard Stanley the film director once escaped from war torn Afghanistan with his wounded cameraman after he took the LSD he had with him.. He said the LSD saved his life as he could see in the dark and believed he could smell the land mines....
Px9w TIL a man was writing articles and reporting about deaths of people who he actually killed. He was arrested when they found he has more information than the police
YPQB TIL Lt James Launders is the only submarine commander in history to have engaged and destroyed an enemy submarine during time of war using only his own un-aided vessel while both ships were fully submerged