Guess What I Learned Today?

It's time we start answering questions that everybody keeps asking.

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YouTube was actually created as a dating site.

The idea was for users to upload videos introducing themselves. It fell flat and so it was opened up to just upload videos about anything.

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Jodie Foster's first role in a film was at 9 years old and was actually attacked by a lion.

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Evel Knievel has the record for most broken bones at 433

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Some studies have shown swearing while injured can increase pain tolerance by 33%.

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Oymyakon, a settlement in Russia, is the coldest inhabited place on earth. The 500 residents live in an average winter temp of -58°F. Schools are only closed if the temp gets to -67°F.

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Over 20 fake Apple stores have been shut down in China. Some of them so convincingly real that even the employees didn't realize they worked at a fake store.

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Coca-Cola produces $3 billion worth of pure cocaine per year and sells it to opioid manufacturers

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After the success of the Pet Rock, Gary Dahl unsuccessfully tried marketing "Sand Breeding Kits" and "Red China Dirt".

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The first live-streaming subscription service was the Theatrophone in 1881, where audio of opera and theater was transmitted over the phone.

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Dolphins have names for each other (identified by unique whistles)

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Aestivation is the summer version of hibernation

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Dave MacPherson, Disneyland's first-ever real customer, has been using his lifetime ticket every year since 1955.

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The U.S. tried permanent daylight saving time in the 1970s — then quickly rejected it

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On average, only 3 percent of a museum’s collection is on display at any given time

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Hotels use to charge for ice until Holiday Inn started offering ice for free, then they all stopped charging.

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The world's first hard drive, the IBM 350, was introduced in 1956. It was leased to companies for $37,600/month (adjusted to 2024), weighed one ton, and held 3.75 MB, about the size of a small PDF file.

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a zeptosecond is a trillionth of a billionth of a second. It is the smallest unit of time ever measured

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