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TIL the founders of Bebo sold it to AOL for $850 million and bought it back for $1 million years later.

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8ev0b TIL Godfrey the Hunchback, (1076) was assassinated by a spy below his personal latrine with a spear… in the posterior
Rv9 TIL a group of British librarians ranked “To Kill a Mockingbird” ahead of the Bible as the book everyone should read before they die
vBpx TIL That there is a star 50 light-years from earth in the constellation Centaurus (BPM 37093) that is pure crystallized carbon, which means it is a dimond that weighs 10 billion trillion trillion carats. Written out that would be 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 carats.
oRwZr TIL a study tested 23 human testes & 47 pet dog testes and found microplastics in every sample. The human testicles had a plastic concentration almost three times higher than that found in the dog testes: 330 micrograms per gram of tissue compared with 123 micrograms.
KJ1G TIL: The famous red sky in “The Scream” painting is probably from the eruption of Krakatoa. For several months, the sky was red, the moonlight appeared green, and the sun turned a lavender colour.