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TIL Family Guy once used footage from 9-year-old YouTube video in one of its episodes without permission from the owner. The owner’s original clip was then removed from Youtube for copyright infringement.

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pBdZ TIL The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise is the second oldest commissioned warship in the US navy, has served for 51 years and is due to be made inactive tomorrow. So passes the eighth vessel to bear the name.
JPQ8 TIL AT&T made a working answering machine in 1939 but suppressed it, thinking public fear of being recorded would lead to widespread abandonment of the telephone.
AN0Xa TIL the Amygdala in the brain is responsible for processing fear and sexual desires. Its goal is to ensure survival. If for some reason fear is not enough to get through a dangerous situation, stimulation of sexual activity for the purpose of reproduction ensures the continuation of the species.
QMaM TIL Googlewhacking is a challenge/activity where you enter two words in the search bar for Google and try to end up with only one search result. There are over 482,000 googlewhacks recorded.
nba7 TIL that, in 2014, English YouTube star Zoella uploaded a picture to Instagram of a “random man & his dog” on the beach. The “random man” was Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour.