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TIL Pakistan accidentally took down Youtube for the entire globe in 2008 in an attempt to block it

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LQbZP TIL that the first email was sent by Ray Tomlinson in 1971. He was also the first to use the @ symbol in email addresses, which is still used today to separate the username from the computer name!
OvM7 TIL Casey Kasem Kasem was a devout vegan. He quit the Scooby-Doo show in 1995 when asked to voice Shaggy in a Burger King commercial, returning in 2002 after negotiating to have Shaggy become a vegetarian.
GA7E4 TIL feeling suffocated is caused by excess CO2, not lack of oxygen. Thus carbon monoxide (CO) is a silent killer: it blocks oxygen delivery and you can pass out and die quickly without feeling anything. It can also cause chain fatalities as people see a body, rush to help, and pass out themselves.
VMbZp TIL in 1975 actor Oliver Reed had a pie thrown in his face at a premiere. Then a man came up to him with a card saying "Pie in the Face International. You have been selected by Mr. Keith Moon to become a member." and a certificate with the words "You are a member, sponsored by Keith Moon.".
5yJP TIL iranian artist Atena Farghadani was imprisoned for critizing an anti birth-control law in a cartoon - then additionally charged with ‘illegitimate sexual relationship short of adultery’ for shaking her lawyers hand.