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TIL The founder of the social network Bebo sold it to AOL for $850Million then five years later, bought it back for $1Million, then sold it to Twitch for $25Million.

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oRexY TIL The term “Romance languages” has nothing to do with being languages of love, but rather because they all descend from the same parent language- Latin, the language of the Romans. The English term “romance” descends from the French word for a particular Latin dialect called Romanicus.
d8jpQ TIL that the Catholic Church closed a Louisiana parish in 1955 after its members refused to let a black priest be assigned to it.
b6Ebj TIL Biggest NBA brawl in history left players with $11.2 million fine and caused numerous game suspensions
dDvpj TIL that sixteen people survived inside the collapse of the World Trade Center, and they were all in Stairwell B of the North Tower, in the center of the building. The survivors were spread out between floors 22 and 1.
yVWYX TIL Fred Crisman hoaxed a UFO sighting, created a secret society, hosted a conservative talk show, was an official suspect in the JFK assassination, and claimed to have battled non-human cave monsters in WW2.