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TIL this was the second video played upon MTV’s debut. ????

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7rbwL TIL upon sending his son, who worried about his ability to hold his own amid experienced and eminent statesmen and diplomats, to the negotiation that would lead to the Peace of Westphalia, a Swedish statesman famously told him:"Do you not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?"
GdZg TIL that the DCIM folder stands for “Digital Camera Images” and is a part of the DCF (Design rule for Camera File System) standard
QJ7XL TIL that all vertebrates have a blind spot where they are unable to perceive vision. This is the point where optic fibres pass front-to-back through the retina towards the brain. Thus, this spot has no photoreceptors.
EgE9V TIL of Udam Singh. When Michael O'Dwyer, the Governor of Punjab (British India) ordered the Jallianwala Bagh massacre against peaceful protestors which killed reportedly up to 1500, Udam got his revenge for India 21 years later when he travelled to London and assassinated Michael O'Dwyer
VMb9D TIL of Guang Bing, a beloved Chinese bagel credited with winning a war against the Japanese 500 years.