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TIL that the Australian government is passing a bill to give media companies control of YouTube's algorithm #OurYoutube

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7rAmb TIL that famous French painter Claude Monet was a poor man until he won 100,000 francs in the French lottery and lived a life of wealth and luxury unlike some other famous painters of his time.
N7YBE TIL: Physicians in the medieval times would swish multiple knights urine in their mouths to decide what they ate for the day.
V4om TIL there are at least 7,102 known languages alive in the world. And 23 of these languages make up the native tongue of 4.1 billion people.
jN8gN TIL a single type of MP3 player, the S1 one, was sold under dozens of different brand names, including counterfeits of iPod, Samsung and Sony trademarks, and with various case designs.
5Yann TIL Whales and Dolphins evolved to live on land, then about 50M years ago thought "nah screw this" and went back to the ocean