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TIL: Youtube has a charts page which is virtually inaccessible through the front page.

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Myda TIL: There is an island in South Carolina, off limits to humans, that is home to 4000 monkeys used for medical experiments.
E1x9p TIL Edward Norton is a prolific philanthropist, being president of the American Branch of the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust, a UN Goodwill Ambassador, member of Enterprise Community Partners, founding CrowdRise to raise funds for charity, and chairman of the board to Signature Theatre.
nKBG TIL that in the United States average wages haven’t grown since 1964 (adjusted for inflation)
7rkoO TIL in the 1940s baseball umpires were called “guessers.” Anyone who questioned their calls were known as secondguessers, which is how the word second-guess was introduced to the English language.
9YWJp TIL that SEGA is short for Service Games