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TIL The video for Gangnam Style has had over 2.3 billion views breaking the YouTube view counter and forcing them to update their site code.

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x68Zg TIL that the letter “E” was used for grading up until the 1930s because US schools feared students would misinterpret “E” for meaning excellent.
wod0P TIL some of St. Nicholas/Santa Claus’s bones were once gifted to a New York City church by Nicholas II, the last tsar of Russia. Both the church and the bones were destroyed on 9/11.
16p5O TIL of James Lind a doctor, whose experiments are believed to have helped inspire both Frankenstein and Dracula. Lind died after not urinating enough for five straight years.
69y4m Today I learned that dolphins also get high
0d80M TIL A hang-gliding world record was set in 1989 by Kevin Christopherson, who rode an updraft 287 miles (462 km) from Bairoil, Wyoming to North Dakota