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TIL that Kristen Bell was the voice of Gossip Girl

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YGe7 TIL when Gangnam Style surpassed ~2.15 billion views on Youtube, the View Counter went negative, causing Youtube to release a statement saying “We never thought a video would be watched in numbers greater than a 32-bit integer (=2,147,483,647 views), but that was before we met PSY.”
rRPKw TIL about the Republic of Vermont, an independent republic that lasted from 1777 to 1791, which, after breaking away from Quebec, fought with the Americans against the British in the Revolutionary War, and was admitted to the union as a counterweight to the slave state of Kentucky.
X0vNE TIL Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones had four children before he turned 20, two of them before he was 18
dDw9B TIL in Japan raw eggs are generally safe to eat. This is because the country has developed a "super egg machine" that checks the inside of the eggs for salmonella using spectroscopic analysis. It also cleans the eggs without breaking their shells, dries them, and packages them so they are safe.
DQL6P TIL the US got rid of seasonal clock changes in the 70s and everyone hated it and quickly went back to the clock changes.