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TIL that beetles were the first pollinators
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TIL when Gangnam Style surpassed ~2.15 billion views on Youtube, the View Counter went negative, causing Youtube to release a statement saying “We never thought a video would be watched in numbers greater than a 32-bit integer (=2,147,483,647 views), but that was before we met PSY.”
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TIL despite John Logie Baird inventing the television, broadcast television, and transatlantic television broadcasts, he still only came 44th on a list of 'Greatest Britons'.
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TIL Michael Keaton is a screen name, his legal name is still Michael Douglas, but can’t be used due to SAG rules.
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TIL people with nerve damage in their fingers don't get "prune fingers" when soaked in water. This is because wrinkling is a reflex of the autonomic nervous system which causes blood vessels under the skin to constrict. This reflex is theorized to have evolved to improve our handling of wet objects.
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TIL that there are more possible QR code combinations than there are atoms in the universe.