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The first ever YouTube video was uploaded 15 years ago today

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y4MX TIL that Oliver Cromwell was exhumed 3 years after his death so they could put him on trial for treason and execute his corpse.
jdDM TIL That there is a Swedish Speed Metal band called “Sabaton” That teaches history through it’s music, including an album devoted to teaching about World War Two
R7Xr9 TIL that in 2007 a man went to sea for 3 years, 2 of them alone after sending his pregnant girlfriend ashore
0ZGp TIL that Sriracha sauce (“rooster sauce”) founder Huy Fong started his company in a small office in Los Angeles’ Chinatown, hand-grinding peppers and selling the sauce to friends - he now runs it out of a 655,000 square foot HQ.
dOv8 TIL Dick Van Dyke’s hobby is doing CGI animation, and he even made special effects for an episode of Diagnosis Murder in 1997.