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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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dGYZ TIL After Esquire rejected a story about straight men being persecuted in a world where homosexuality was the norm, Hugh Hefner published it in Playboy. In response to angry letters, Hefner wrote: “If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society then the reverse was wrong, too.”
N7ZWE TIL about Jim LeBlanc, the only man to survive a vacuum. He was a spacesuit technician, and entered a simulated vacuum to test a spacesuit, when his pressurization hose malfunctioned. He passed out in fourteen seconds, but survived with only an earache.
newZP TIL about Naturhouse. A traditional Swedish log cabin encased in a green house
WkP84 TIL red squirrels harvest mushrooms and then hang them in trees to dry. Once dried they collect them and store them for the winter.
O5Q4 TIL: Samuel L Jackson Had a Purple Lightsaber In Star Wars So He Could Find Himself During A Fight Scene