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TIL a Rag-Tag Group of Acid-Dropping Activists Tried to “Levitate” the Pentagon

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PYkVZ TIL that YT creators didn't think a video can be watched more than 2 billion times so INT_MAX was used (maximum 2,147,483,647). Because of Gangnam style they had to change it since adding one more view to 2,147,483,647 would result in -2,147,483,648
X07NP TIL that Nelvana did dubbed all 70 episodes of Cardcaptors in Canada and Australia and that Kids WB was the one that cut it down to 39 episodes in the US.
w6o6 TIL during his time as President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki banned the use of antiretroviral drugs in hospitals because he did not believe HIV caused AIDS. During his presidency over 330,000 people died of AIDS.
W7rBY TIL that boxers have the shortest lifespan among athletes
E1KQw TIL that in 1910 spectroscopic analysis of volatile gases in the tail of Halley's Comet caused panicked buying of gas masks and quack "anti-comet pills" and "anti-comet umbrellas" by the public.