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TIL the first youtube video uploaded was of a guy talking about an elephant

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VMDVZ TIL of Alice Bradley Sheldon, an author who wrote under different names to hide her gender and identity. Best known as James Tiptree Jr. and Raccoona Sheldon, she was not very successful getting published under the psuedonym Raccoona until her other alter, Tiptree, wrote to publishers to intervene.
D1lLD Til that in 1989 the U.S.A was going to build a 50 mile long particle accelerator in texas that would have discovered the higgs-boson 10 years before CERN.
8adeb TIL that China, even though is almost as wide as the continental United States, only shares 1 time zone due to the CP desire for unified control.
nePVB TIL that there are five different colors of blood among living things barring anomalies.
pY4xp TIL that chickens are sometimes cannibals.