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TIL that this was the first ever video of Youtube

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ZpDlY TIL Mel Brooks won an Oscar for making fun of his own movie. After watching an abstract animated short Brooks commissioned his own short and improvised a commentary to make The Critic (1963) which won Brooks his first Oscar.
wVNJ TIL Angela from Family Guy is voiced by Carrie Fisher, AKA Princess Leia
w9W6 TIL of Jeanette Rankin, the first female member of congress and the only person to vote “Nay” to go to war with Japan in ‘41. Many requested she change her vote but she refused. After the vote, an angry mob followed her from the Capitol building, forcing her to take refuge in a telephone booth.
grv0W TIL it is cockroach and not cockaroach. Have been pronouncing it wrong for 30 years
X07pk TIL Beyond Good and Evil 2 has broken the record for longest game development time, at almost 16 years