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TIL that Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend" was the first YouTube music video to reach 100 million views, doing so back in 2008

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b6l6E TIL Cassini was able to measure the change in diameter of the Sun's disk as Earth moved toward and then away from the Sun through a hole in a church, confirming Kepler's heliocentric theory. The same church hosts a fresco depicting Prophet Mohamed in hell being tortured and devoured by a demon
VM6jD TIL in 2016 Vince Neil, Mötley Crüe lead singer, grabbed a woman by the hair after she asked for Nicolas Cage's autograph... who he was hanging out with at the time; Cage tried to restrain him
NweM TIL that Zambia had a space program in the 1960s. It consisted of a grade school science teacher, a teenage girl and her cat, and a missionary.
Qbyd TIL when contestants are kicked off of Gordan Ramsey’s show “Hell’s Kitchen”, they are giving psychological examinations. The show is so draining that the producers want to make sure the contestants won’t kill themselves or someone else.
M7GoK TIL Tom Hardy reads bedtime stories for the BBC's series CBeebies