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TIL that David Bowie holds the world record for number of music video plays over a 24-hour period with 51 million plays, occurring January 11th, 2016, the day after his death.

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78MvL TIL during the music festival Woodstock '94, it rained all weekend long and turned the grassy venue into mud. Green Day started a mud fight with the crowd during their set, which ended with fans charging the stage, and bassist Mike Dirnt getting a tooth knocked out.
r9Qx TIL that Reddit is owned by the same company that operates Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair, Wired, The New Yorker and House & Garden
V61B TIL that Woody Allen’s Oscar-winning script, “Midnight in Paris,” began as just a title he liked for a film. So, rather than coming up with a title for a written film, he wrote the film only after coming up with the title; it took several months for the film’s idea to come to him and fit the title.
vPb5L TIL that UNO was invented by a barber from Ohio to resolve an argument with his son about the rules of Crazy Eights
VeaQ TIL that Hyder, Alaska uses Canadian electricity, a Canadian area code, Canadian police, and mostly Canadian currency; you need a passport to travel from Hyder to the rest of the United States, but not to travel from Canada to Hyder.