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TIL: In 2019, a lawyer and a software developer brute force copyrighted every possible melody and entered them into public domain to insulate musicians from ‘stolen melody’ lawsuits.

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QQ6X TIL the worlds smallest concept gasoline engine is 15 mm long 5 mm wide and 3 mm tall. It will produce 11 watts at up to 50,000 rpm’s and it could power an LCD watch for two years on a single drop of lighter fluid.
x6av0 TIL that the chocolate makers J.S. Fry & Sons had a famous advert featuring a crying boy who becomes happy after having chocolate. The boy was actually forced to cry after having an ammonia soaked cloth wrapped around his neck by his dad, who then took a photograph of this used in the advert.
1aAkV TIL that a McDonald’s in Sedona, Arizona has its arches painted turquoise blue instead of the typical “Golden Arches”. The reason for this is because Sedona has strict rules concerning buildings in hopes that the colors don’t clash with the town’s surrounding natural scenery.
XWej TIL Rapper Chamillionaire is a successful tech investor. One of his early investments, Maker Studios, recently sold to Disney for over $500 million. He’s currently the ““Entrepreneur in Residence” at a venture capital firm.
05dR TIL the magnitude 9.0 great earthquake that struck Japan on 11 March 2011 “was so powerful that its rumble was ‘heard’ from space. Scientists in France and the Netherlands have found that sound waves from the quake reached as far as an orbiting satellite [GOCE], 260 kilometres [161.6 miles] above.”