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TIL that Jeff Bezos’ parents put several hundred thousand dollars into Amazon.com to get it started.

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69gVZ TIL that in 2002 a British scientist set out to find the funniest joke in the world - and found it.
nW5BG TIL in 2010, a couple purchased the town of Wauconda, Washington for just $360,000
VB7vk TIL that until the late nineteenth century, approximately half of all humans born died from infections before the age of fifteen.
VMWPG TIL Ruth, of Ruth's Chris Steakhouse, has always hated the name "Ruth's Chris"
woyQ7 TIL that Lincoln—a small city in Northern England—had the tallest building in the world, when the central spire of its cathedral was completed in the year 1311, at 160 metres tall.