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

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QN05L TIL in 1982 for a film named Fitzcarraldo, director Werner Herzog had the cast drag a 30-ton steamship over a steep hill: to depict real life events. Under the threat of death, Carlos Fitzcarrald forced indigenous workers to transport a 320 ton ship over a mountain to get to another river in 1894.
ynLe TIL That GPS is wholly controlled by the USA and can be ‘switched off’ at any time.
nejK7 TIL Ben Franklin wrote a letter listing the benefits of having sex with older women. Including it takes longer for the vagina to age and that "they are so grateful"!
e0r15 TIL the ocean liner "Stockholm" that collided with and sunk the Italian liner "Andrea Doria" in 1956 is still in use today as a cruise ship
M7o8 TIL That 100 million years ago, the center of a volcano in the Sahara desert collapsed, leaving a circular structure visible from space.