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TIL Rick Astley once interrupted a Thanksgiving parade in order to perform his very own live Rickroll

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E8Lw TIL that the Netherlands voted “Swaffelen” as their word of the year in 2008. It means to repeatedly smack one’s penis against someone or something.
RRbj TIL: NASA sent pics of Playboy Playmates to the moon.
yVgR8 TIL of the Gromyko Commission, which although there was wide spread support for Crimean Tartars to return to their homeland, the commission decided that there was no "no basis" for the Crimean Tartar’s return to their homeland.
loKlG TIL during World War 1 the Ottoman Empire rounded up and slaughtered over 1,500,000 Armenians living in their empire. This event was the basis for the creation of the word "Genocide".
WkaXL TIL the Bloodbath of B-R5RB, the largest PvP battle of all time, has its own Wiki page tracking commanders, casualties, a detailed timeline, and shifts to the political ingame landscape. The battle was also commemorated by an ingame monument.