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TIL: 1,500 YouTube views count as an album sale in the US

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Kxw9 TIL that Gmail was launched on April 1,2004 and was widely assumed to be an April Fools’ Day prank.They offered 1GB free storage in 2004 while other webmail services provided between 5MB - 50MB.
6yjm TIL: In the 1500’s, the Iroquois tribes designed quite an elaborate political system. This included a bicameral (two-house) legislature, much like the British Parliament and modern U.S. Congress. Such a complex political arrangement was unknown in Europe at that time.
vg1x TIL experiments were held that tested responses to potential threats from white and black strangers. The results determined that unarmed blacks were shot more than whites, even among black subjects tested. “The trend is less likely a function of active prejudice than of ambient social stereotypes.”
avV9 TIL, the whole Y2K doomsday scare will probably happen again in 2038.
yVerp TIL, serial killer Todd Kohlhepp kidnapped 31-year-old Kala Brown and kept her inside of a shipping container for 65 days before she was rescued.