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TIL As of May 2019, videos were being uploaded to YouTube at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute.

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W7OnB TIL that 1 WTC is 1776 ft tall
glZ4 TIL that is 2009 two men randomly decided to attack two men dressed in drag. It turned out the two drag queens were cage fighters in fancy dress.
gDyD TIL for over 200 years, Martha’s Vineyard had a very high percentage of deaf citizens due to the founder effect. Virtually everyone was fluent in sign language and deafness was not a social barrier. Martha’s Vineyard sign language went extinct in 1952.
oBkbL TIL that while researchers used to think premarital cohabitation led to less early divorces but more longer-term marriages, that may no longer prove true. Researchers now think premarital cohabitation has short‐term benefits and longer term costs for marital stability.
QJ1Op TIL cnn has a pre recorded footage known as the "turner doomsday video" which is suppose to air as soon as the end of the world happens. it was recorded around the time ted turner was still the news anchor for cnn around 1980.