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TIL: The USA Declared the Marianas trench a National monument

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9Y6bX TIL that in 1998, Disney created a copyright law that made sure that no movies from 1923 can become free to watch and distribute for 20 more years. This copyright law expired today, January 1, 2019.
G8pj TIL that Socrates complained about the technology of writing. He said it would “create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories.”
4law TIL that 12,000 bears are farmed for their bile in Asia which is used in traditional Chinese medicine and generates $2bn per year. Farming always involves surgery on the bears to insert a catheter or to cut a hole through the abdomen by which the bile leaks. Bear bile has no medicinal effect.
Wk959 TIL that one review of Thinner, written by Stephen King under a pseudonym, was described by one reviewer as "What Stephen King would write if Stephen King could write"
gr8m9 TIL Ex British PM Margaret Thatcher was such a big fan of a political sitcom Yes Minister that she participated in a sketch written by her starring the main characters.