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

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5Vrxk TIL about the "boiling frog", an apologue describing a frog being slowly boiled alive. The story is often used as a metaphor for the inability or unwillingness of people to react to or be aware of sinister threats that arise gradually rather than suddenly.
6EV9w TIL that it takes 9 days and 14 hours to watch all of The Simpsons straight in one run.
6EGmw TIL that the sugar industry promoted sugar as a weight loss product.
W1K8 TIL the old man who masturbates to Natalie Portman on the subway in Black Swan and the guy who yells “ass-to-ass” in Requiem for a Dream are played by the same actor. The character is credited as “Uncle Hank” in both of them.
OZ5X TIL that an ancient Greek philosopher called Crysippus died of laughter while watching a drunk Mule try to eat from a fig tree