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TIL that YouTube was invented out of frustration that there wasn't a single platform to watch Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction following the now-infamous Super Bowl Halftime performance

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nW6lG TIL that the word "boycott" comes from a British landlord's agent in Ireland named Charles Boycott who engaged in shady practices and therefore no one would do business with him.
xwQk TIL Author Roald Dahl’s last words would have been “It’s just that I will miss you all so much”, but after a morphine injection, his last words were “Ow, fuck.”
v1A8R TIL, Italy once tried to ban pasta because they believed that it weighed Italians down and prevented them from achieving any kind of greatness.
nW81Y TIL that the world's oldest known living organism is a colony of quaking aspen trees in Utah named Pando. Estimated to be around 80,000 years old, Pando covers an area of 106 acres and consists of over 40,000 individual trees, all connected by a single root system.
kpbW TIL: Hawk moths can jam a bat’s echolocation by rubbing their genitals together to create ultrasound disruption, throwing the bat off.