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TIL that according to a recent study, 93% of YouTube users skip ads which can only be skipped after viewing the first 5 seconds.

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YVeA TIL a nickel weighs EXACTLY twice as much as a penny.
Y7vbx TIL about the School of the Air, a term used for radio-borne (now Internet-based) correspondence schools that teach children who live in the most remote parts of the Australian outback, where there aren't enough people for a regular school.
OoopR TIL: Chernobyl was closed in 2000, Japan has still most of the nuclear reactors in standby.
6EgPm TIL the budget for US military bands is 3x that of the NEA
kKgW TIL World record for the highest fall without a parachute belongs to an air hostess named Vesna Vulovic. She survived 33,333 feet as she was nestled between a catering trolley, a dead body and the tail section of the plane. The first thing she asked for after waking up from coma was a cigarette!