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TIL Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails once released an entirely free album under a Creative Commons license with the message "this one's on me"

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d89eB TIL The German word for "panic buying" is "Hamsterkauf."
d8Y9Q TIL J.R.R Tolkien considered various different title including 'The Magic Ring' but later settled on 'Lord of the Rings'
X0AYX TIL Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders were headed for certain annihilation in their attempt to take San Juan Hill, until the 10th Calvary Buffalo soldiers, on their own request, flanked the Spanish, thus insuring victory.
ymel TIL Scientists in the Netherlands are developing an ocean cleaning system which uses the ocean’s currents and a barrier to remove plastic waste. A 100 km long system will be deployed in 2020 to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
1aRMD TIL Aimo Koivunen, a Finnish soldier who during WW2, over-dosed on amphetamines, lost his squad, laid in a ditch for a week after stepping on a land mine, then travelled over 250 miles on skis, was found alive only weighing 94 pounds. He went on to live another 45 years.