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TIL that YouTube “freezes” the view count at 301 when videos start getting lots of views. The real numbers are posted once all the traffic to the video is verified as genuine.

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gMB9 TIL on August 25, 1914, in retaliation for Belgium’s guerrilla tactics in defending their country, German troops burned Leuven’s University Library, destroying hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable medieval-period books, manuscripts, and treasures.
6EnnZ TIL the phrase ‘Pull yourself up by your bootstraps’ originated as an absurdist euphemism meant to be sarcastic
9Xam TIL: Brazil has the highest rate of aluminium can recycling in the world with 98.3%
BoLr TIL that Christmas for children in Medieval England meant getting extra beatings so as to ‘remind them of Herod’s cruelty’ instead of getting presents
V9ZG TIL that users had to pay $20 to beta-test Windows 95. The beta copies were timed and not upgradeable, and the beta testers were not eligible for any discount on the final version.