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TIL Rick Astley has made a total of $12 from Rickrolling on YouTube

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oXe7 TIL The term lesbian comes from an ancient greek island called Lesbos. She is believed to be the earliest documented gay or bisexual woman and was born in 615 BC. Sappho was a poet and a playwright but her works were destroyed in the fire that burned down the Library of Alexandria
eYok TIL that there are only six places in world without Mosquitos Iceland ,New Caledonia ,French Polynesia,The Seychelles,Antarctica,Faroe Islands
D1GWr TIL lightning strikes are several times more likely to reach the ground in colder climates compared to the tropics
PYg7Z TIL There's a zip file titled '42.zip'. It's known as a zip bomb or 'zip of death' because it's original size is only 42 kilobytes. But when it's uncompressed, it expands to 4.5 petabytes (4,500,000 gigabytes), crashing the antivirus program and then the system.
b9Db4 TIL while native citizens of the small European principality of Monaco cannot gamble in their own physical casinos, they can legally gamble on online ones