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TIL that Russia offered to sell Alaska to Liechtenstein, and only offered it to the USA after they declined.

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Z8eyR Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend" was the first YouTube music video to reach 100 million views, doing so back in 2008.
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9RR7 TIL As the artists showed up to participate in recording “We Are the World”, Stevie Wonder informed each of them that if the song was not finished in one take, he and Ray Charles would be driving everyone home