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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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4xeg TIL convicted murderer Richard McNair successfully escaped prison, while running, he was stopped by police looking for him and talked himself out of it. The incident is recorded on dashcam.
BrW1x TIL that Larry Flynt has sent a monthly copy of Hustler to every congressional office since 1983, and members of Congress can't stop receiving the magazines—because a court agreed that it was within Flynt's right to petition the government under the First Amendment.
KOY1B TIL While on the run the once drug lord Pablo Escobar burned two million dollars to keep his family warm at an unpowered mountainside hideout.
A1r7 TIL: The President of the USA is forbidden to fly in the V-22 Osprey as it is too dangerous
P1NLn TIL a 2019 study documented how the percentage of heterosexual married couples who met online rose from only 2% in 1998 to 20% in 2008 and then to nearly 50% in 2017, which made it the dominant form of initial contact for couples who marry.