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pYjlG TIL there is an Atlantic City, Wyoming, named as such due to its location on the eastern side of the Continental Divide.
780p TIL in 1971, Ted Bundy worked at Seattle’s Suicide Hotline crisis center.
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.”
G97g TIL High-ranking Viking funerals involved getting a slave girl drunk, screwed by numerous men, restrained, strangled, then stabbed through the ribs before being burned with the corpse.
0dy5R TIL the Citadel Military College of South Carolina was built in response to Denmark Vesey's thwarted plans for a slave rebellion in Charleston, which had been planned to coincide with Bastille Day