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TIL Saudi Arabia is the largest consumer (per capita) of YouTube; with women as the biggest audience and education as the largest content category they watch

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BgmOk TIL that in AD 70, Roman emperor Vespasian levied a tax on urine and sent agents to public urinals to collect it. When his son (who opposed the tax), asked him whether the coins he collected this way smelled bad, he famously replied "money does not stink".
9mBX TIL that Matthew Perry is a huge fan of Fallout 3 and once presented Ellen Degeneres with a signed copy of the game on her show. This then led to him being asked to voice Benny in Fallout: New Vegas.
4bd5 TIL the longest certified foot race in the world is the ‘Self-Transcendence 3100’ where runners must do 5649 laps around a single block in Queens New York.
6onW TIL when John Williams first played the theme song to the film “Jaws” by playing just two notes on piano, Steven Spielberg laughed and thought it was a joke.
Yp7Wr TIL that adding salt on pineapples makes it sweeter. The salt reacts with the acids of the fruit, thus converting into a neutral compound and losing the sour taste. Because of this, the pineapple then becomes sweeter.