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TIL that since 2013, a YouTube view is counted as a sale of a song, in the sense that it is counted toward the certification of a song as Gold (500k copies), Platinum (1M copies), or Diamond (10M copies)

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oBKL8 TIL in 1903, a man named Ellis Hughes stole a 32,000 lb meteorite by secretly moving it from a neighbor's property onto his own. It took Hughes, his son and their horse 90 days to move it 3/4 of a mile. Once it arrived, he claimed he found it there and charged 25 cents admission to see it.
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