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TIL that Youtuber KassemG stopped making videos after selling his company “Maker Studios” to Disney for $500m

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JQZ4 TIL that Serbs were the victims of one of the biggest genocides carried out in WWII, Croation fascists killing up to 500 thousand Serbs, or close to 20% of the Serb population at the time.
QNnKe TIL that we have tiny ear crystals that can get dislodged and cause terrible vertigo called Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV).
165WD TIL that there are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the observable universe
mxNnO TIL the children's book 'Love You Forever' simple four-lined verse was a poem the author would sing silently to himself after his wife gave birth to two stillborn babies.
xVdD0 TIL that in 1968 the original London bridge was purchased by an American entrepreneur who shipped it to Lake Havasu City, Arizona where it now resides as a tourist destination (and functional Bridge)