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TIL that over 60% of the top 1000 most popular videos on YouTube are blocked in Germany.

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nWZJP TIL in the 90s the CIA tried to discredit the US Ambassador to Guatemala after they bugged her room and heard her talking lovingly to a woman named Murphy, and accused her of having a lesbian affair with the woman to Washington. There was no affair she was talking to her poodle named Murphy.
a87ZL TIL, the highest scoring NBA player of all time, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, only made one three pointer his entire NBA career.
VBlGm TIL The stirring theme from 'The Last of the Mohicans' was originally written to accompany a Loch Ness Monster museum exhibit
J1VyV TIL the longest name for a person
9mXp TIL: When Albert Einstein published his Theory of General Relativity, the New York Times sent their golfing correspondent to interview him.