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PSY's music video 'Gangnam Style' exceeded the 32-bit integer limit (2,147,483,647) for YouTube view count, necessitating YouTube to upgrade the variable to a 64-bit integer limit at 9 quintilian (9,223,372,036,854,775,808).

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OoJZ1 TIL of Neerja Bhanot - a stewardess on hijacked Pan Am flight 73. She hid the passports of American passengers to protect them. Hijackers shot passengers killing 22 and wounding 150. Bhanot was posthumously awarded medals of bravery by India, Pakistan, and the US.
D1r4J TIL Keanu Reeves once rescued a pre-fame Octavia Spencer after she was stranded on the roadside
x4Nb TIL Alexander Bell never called his wife or his mother after inventing the telephone because they were both deaf
WkENY TIL Gravity, Forrest Gump, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Inglorious Basterds are some of the movies astronauts can watch on the International Space Station.
neerd TIL Vienna installed gay-themed crossing lights for the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest