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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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9YV5M TIL Kristian Nairn, the actor who played Hodor in Game of Thrones, is a house/EDM music DJ, and he has played alongside people like Fatboy Slim and Steve Aoki. He also headlines his own “Rave of Thrones” club show, a fully immersive Game of Thrones clubbing experience which has toured the UK and US.
jA9Q TIL that Mars Candy Incorporated found E.T. so ugly that the company refused to allow M&M’s to be used in the film, believing the creature would frighten children. This allowed The Hershey Company the opportunity to market Reese’s Pieces.
VBQr4 TIL about Christmas eye, a seasonal epidemic of corneal inflammation occurring in a particular part of Australia, the pain of which is ‘torturous’ and ‘on par with giving birth’
GX0Q TIL that the only Amish man in history to be charged with murder disemboweled his wife in front of their two children.
7r89L TIL even after years of lying about her brother Michael Jackson being a pedophile as a way to extort money from the press, when La Toya Jackson asked him for forgiveness he simply opened his arms, hugged her and said “I will always love my sister.”