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TIL that YouTube had to update their view count from 32-bit to 64-bit solely because Gangnam Style had too many views.

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9YB57 TIL Mitch Hedberg was the Jimmy John's voiceover guy in 2005
loGW5 TIL that one of the reasons the Piltdown Man hoax, the supposed missing link between ape and man found in Britain, fooled so many was because many European scientists, especially Britons, wanted to believe that the earliest humans came from Europe and not from Africa due to their prejudices.
Meo58 TIL Sylvester Stallone taught John Travolta how to be fit in 1983, Stallone in later years began to refer actors who want to gain weight to dinner at his old friends home to help them fatten up
VEO4 TIL that the US invaded Guatemala in 1954 and deposed democratically elected President Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán for the benefit of an american fruit company
69v8 TIL Stephen King was once mistaken for a vandal when he started an impromptu book signing in an Australian book store .