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TIL in 2008, James “Angry Video Game Nerd” Rolfe, who works with Gametrailers.com, which is owned by Viacom, had his YouTube channel temporarily taken down due to his videos matching content owned by Viacom. The content ID match was to his own videos.

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ob9R TIL as of 2011, there are still ~170 trees in Hiroshima that survived the atomic bomb; they are called the ‘Hibakujumoku’
v1yx4 TIL that in the Roman Empire "Black people were generally not excluded from any profession, and there was usually no stigma or bias against mixed race relationships in Antiquity."
l75Na TIL that Franklin Roosevelt probably had an affair with Princess Martha of Norway. Invited to USA during WW2, she stayed at the White House and traveled with FDR. The president's son and others believed that Martha was Roosevelt's "last love".
njO7 TIL Viggo Mortensen wore his Lord of The Ring costume for months before filming to give it a worn, lived-in appearance and even repaired it himself when it tore.
ZVko TIL its national sleepy head day in Finland. Where the last person asleep in the house is woken up by either being thrown into water or have water dumped on them.