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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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aw4XN TIL that Steve Irwin paid for one of his security guards to go and train MMA in the USA, that security guard, Kyle Noke, would go on to fight in the UFC and credits Irwin as a major reason why he achieved his dreams.
BroVW TIL that the largest municipality in the world is Sermersooq in Greenland, with an area of 531,900 km² (and a population of 23,123) - if it was a country, it would be the 48th largest in the world, larger than Yemen, Spain, or Thailand
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nZZB TIL Hulda Regehr Clark - the creator of “Cure for All Cancers” alternative medicine regime - died from multiple myeloma, a blood and bone cancer.
l7LK7 TIL the fingernail-sized fish 'Danionella cerebrum' can make noises louder than an elephant.