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TIL that when you click and hold a YouTube video it will fast forward 2x... how have I missed this for 15+ years?

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DmGJ TIL As a young boy Peter Capaldi was such a fan of Doctor Who that he decided he should be president of the Doctor Who fan club and wrote to the BBC telling them so. He wrote so many letters that a member of staff wrote, ‘I think he’s the end and I wish the Daleks or someone would exterminate him’
KYG4G TIL 12-yr-old Francesca Lewis was the sole survivor of a plane crash against the side of a Panamanian volcano that killed the 3 other people on board: her friend, her friend's dad & the pilot. She spent 52 hours in the jungle alone, with no food & both her arm & neck fractured, before being rescued.
VMd44 TIL that Kim Jong-Il was said to be a huge film fan, owning a collection of more than 20,000 video tapes and DVDs. His reported favorite movie franchises included James Bond, Friday the 13th, Rambo, Godzilla and Hong Kong action cinema
pWRG TIL that compared with the 1960s, U.S. women have in 2000s spent two to three hours longer in labor, according to researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, who said the findings suggest doctors may need to rethink the definition of “normal” labor
Oo5WY TIL that Muhammad Ali's star on the Hollywood walk of fame is not on the sidewalk. It is on the wall of Kodak theater because of his request that "he did not want to be walked on."