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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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4XArR TIL about Guy Gabaldon, a half Mexican US marine who convinced around 1300 Japanese soldiers and civilians to surrender on his own, by going into enemy territory without weapons during the battle of Saipan in 1944
xVOR7 TIL the only commercial Elvis ever made, was for Southern Maid donuts.
kJV1m TIL that Franklin Roosevelt, paralyzed by polio at 39, defied odds as a lifelong paraplegic, steering the U.S. through tumultuous times, including World War II, from his wheelchair in the White House
PedO TIL on June 20, 1942 four prisoners, in stolen SS uniforms, escaped from the Auschwitz by driving out the exit gate. Upon arriving at the armed gate, one of the prisoners yelled from the stolen car “Wake up you damn buggers! Open up or I’ll open you up” The guard immediately raise the barrier