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TIL YouTube acknowledges the first rickroll as an important event in its history

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WjWB TIL that the non-profit Susan G. Komen for the Cure has sued several other, often small defenseless, nonprofits for using the words “for the cure” or the color pink.
kOe01 TIL that Albania, the only European country with a Muslim majority at the time, had their Jewish population triple during WWII due to a code of honor called 'Besa' where it was an honor to protect those in refuge. Almost no Jews were handed over to the Germans with exception to one family.
6ELxJ TIL that pilots in Australia and Canada are allowed to take a “controlled rest in position”, which is a nap in the cockpit, when it is safe to do so
LEyQ TIL that autotune was originally developed by Exxon as a method of interpreting seismic data.
Lamp TIL Beethoven was once challenged to an improvisation contest by a famous pianist named Daniel Steibelt, Beethoven took the piece Steibelt’s music was written on, turned it upside down, played it, then improvised on that and mocked Daniel through his own music. Daniel left halfway through.