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TIL that no country in the world has a lower life expectancy than the the countries with the highest life expectancy in 1800.

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R7a76 PSY's music video 'Gangnam Style' exceeded the 32-bit integer limit (2,147,483,647) for YouTube view count, necessitating YouTube to upgrade the variable to a 64-bit integer limit at 9 quintilian (9,223,372,036,854,775,808).
rRgVe TIL that Kirsty MacColl died while pushing one of her children out of the way of a speedboat owned by a billionaire. A deckhand claimed he, and not the billionaire was responsible for piloting the boat. He paid a fine of $90 to avoid prison.
Bo5b TIL that the football huddle was invented at Gallaudet University, an all-deaf school, to prevent opposing teams from seeing their signs.
9YOG TIL that there is a shipwreck in the Thames Estuary containing at least 1,400 tonnes of TNT high explosives including 2,000 cases of cluster bombs and if it exploded could be one of the largest non-nuclear explosions ever and create a small tsunami.
9eV6 TIL Dan Aykroyd co-founded the House of Blues, and did it with the mission to promote African-American cultural contributions of blues music and folk art.