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TIL MySpace in July 2005 was bought for $580 Million by Rupert Murdoch. In 2011, it was sold for $35 Million.

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EgO1x TIL it's 30 years since the Eternal September.
woPEP TIL Greeks put up protective magic hermai - stone block bearded male heads with genitals "at the appropriate height" - marked crossings, boundaries, outside houses and at public buildings, and were also signposts with distances. Outside Athenian homes hermai were rubbed with olive oil for good luck.
96Wp TIL in circuses, the Sousa march “The Stars and Stripes Forever” is played by bands to alert workers to a life-threatening emergency, and to expedite removing the audience. It is never a part of regular circus music programs for this reason.
veB8 TIL Japan provided almost $30 million from tsunami recovery funds to finance the country’s annual whale hunt.
xVa90 TIL Of the Dunning-Kruger effect. A cognitive bias in the field of psychology that defines a person so stupid that they can't truly understand how stupid they are, so they end up believing they're intelligent, and usually intellectually superior to those around them.