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TIL that Psy initially refused to upload "Gangnam Style" to Youtube, saying that he would be "humiliated" because he didn't have any international fans.

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l9OG TIL that in 1889 a dam owned by an exclusive hunting and fishing club gave way, causing a flood that killed 2,209 people in southern Pennsylvania. The club’s members included many of the richest men in America and efforts to hold it legally responsible went nowhere
Yppjv TIL There are bugs that look exactly like leaves.
EZB7 TIL that the first scripted inter-racial kiss on US television (Star Trek) was meant to be filmed with and without the kiss. Shatner and Nichols deliberately flubbed every take of the shot without the kiss so that they could not be used.
nWGrW TIL Romans were known to create tombs for their dogs and gave them epitaphs to remember them by. One such inscription read, “I am in tears, while carrying you to your last resting place as much as I rejoiced when bringing you home with my own hands 15 years ago.”
6ExJm TIL Jamaica is divided into three counties: Cornwall, Middlesex and Surrey.