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TIL the first ever vsauce video was a shitpost about E3 2011

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dDDEB TIL United States Quarters have been used to play arcade games since Sega released the game “Periscope” in 1966.
kJ5gW TIL the biggest ship in the world before Titanic, the Olympic, collided with a war vessel while being captained by the eventual captain of the Titanic Edward Smith. The Titanic was being built at the time and had to be delayed in completion as the propeller shaft had to be transferred to the Olympic
YpREA TIL Sir Walter Raleigh, British explorer and historian, first brought the potato to Ireland and planted them at his Irish estate. His cooks, who had never cooked potato before, served the leaves and stems (which are poisonous) making everyone sick. Potatoes were then banned from the court.
MevJA TIL that the population of the Inishkea Islands (in Ireland) was until recently unaware of Christianity and the English language, worshipping a magical stone regularly “re-clothed” by a priestess. A catholic priest cast the stone into the sea in the 1890s, then a storm left the islands abandoned.
KOmx6 TIL Texas had a female governer in the 1920s