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TIL that “Me at the zoo” was the first video ever posted to YouTube by co-founder Jawed Karin in 2005

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R7896 TIL of the largest nuclear test conducted in outer space. Starfish Prime, a July 9, 1962 high-altitude nuclear test conducted by the United States was launched from Johnston Island. The resulting EMP damage shut down communications, street lights and set off burglar alarms in the Hawaiian islands.
4koZa TIL Roberto Benigni's Pinocchio (2002) was the most expensive film in Italian history and a big success in Italy but bombed in the US with 0% on Rotten Tomatoes
rlao TIL that Robert Downey Jr. received 15 nominations for his role as Sgt. Lincoln Osiris in Tropic Thunder including an Oscar and a Golden Globe.
jNvDX TIL that 3 years after his death in 1658, Oliver Cromwell's enbalmed body was exhumed and executed. His head was mounted on a spike on Westminster Hall for 25 years until a storm blew it down. A guard found it and took it home. It was then in private possession until being secretly buried in 1960.
KYMB9 TIL Tupac's final album All Eyez on Me was released after Suge Knight paid Tupac's $1.4 million bail to get him released from jail. In return, Tupac agreed to release three albums on Death Row Records. The double album All Eyes on Me served as the first two albums in the three-album contract.