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TIL that ‘Gangnam style’ was intended to poke fun at people who put on airs and pretended to be fashionable or classy, like people from the Gangnam district of Seoul

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N0D8 TIL Russian cruise missiles form p2p networks, hunt in packs and elect an Alpha to lead them. Oh and they’re 40 years old and still in use.
0w1yN TIL Virgin Media tasked 10 staff working around the clock to find 1 voicemail recording of an OAP's late wife, as he had lost it due to the system upgrade.
jN8PN TIL The oldest occurrence of the word "fuck" in adjectival form in English comes from the margins of a 1528 manuscript copy of Cicero's De Officiis. A monk had scrawled in the margin notes, "fuckin Abbot".
R5DMw TIL when polish pianst Arthur Rubinstein was asked to perform at the opening ceremony of the United Nations after world war 2, he noticed there was no polish delegation or polish flag in the hall. He then changed his program and opened with the polish national anthem.
9YX7X TIL McDonald's lost more than half its employees over just 5 years(2013-2018)