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TIL Pakistani government telecom engineers trying to block domestic traffic to YouTube accidentally blocked YouTube worldwide for two hours.

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oEXL TIL: The last time the Houston Astro dome hosted the Super Bowl in 2003, was vaunted as the “Greatest Super Bowl of all Time” It’s also when Janet Jackson had her live “nipslip” performing w/Justin Timberlake. A guy frustrated trying to find clip the next day had a decent idea and created YouTube.
E1jmo TIL that "ringworm" is a fungal infection and no actual worms are involved
lov75 TIL that Bhutan is the only country in the world whose nature converts more CO2 than the land itself produces.
6EOlm TIL upon her death in 2010, heiress Gail Posner bequeathed her seven-bedroom, $8.3 million Miami mansion and a $3 million trust fund to her three pets, including a Chihuahua named Conchita, for whom she bought a $15,000 diamond-studded Cartier necklace in 2007.
D1eaj TIL after 30 WWII veterans in their mid-nineties were shown ‘Dunkirk,’ the general consensus among them was that they loved the film and thought it captured events very accurately, but “thought the soundtrack was louder than the actual bombardment.” The comment amused Nolan greatly.