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TIL “In 2000, [Blockbuster Video] turned down a chance to purchase a one-year-old company called Netflix for $50 million.”

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OGBZ7 TIL On July 26, 1931, a swarm of grasshoppers descended on Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota devastating millions of acres of crops. It was so thick that it blocked out the sun and one could shovel the grasshoppers with a scoop. Cornstalks were eaten to the ground and fields left completely bare.
gLbL TIL that after using the restroom, orthodox Jews recite a blessing in which they thank God for giving us all buttholes
eGg6 TIL that there are only six people left on the planet who can still ‘speak’ the whistled language known as sfyria
RApj TIL that the man behind goatse died during surgery after he tried to shove a volleyball up his anus.
mNp TIL The dimples on a woman’s back are known as the Dimples of Venus