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TIL SpaceX (Starlink) owns more than half of the earth's artificial satellites.

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nWGR7 TIL in 1981, music retailer Sound of Music held a four-day "Tornado Sale" and promised "best buys" of its leftover stock, after a tornado damaged its most profitable location. The success of the sale inspired the store to rebrand itself in 1983 as Best Buy
5VVXQ TIL D-Day was originally supposed to happen on 5th June but meteorologist James Stagg persuaded Dwight Eisenhower to postpone by a day right at the last minute. The weather conditions had to be just right for the landings and planners took the tide, wind speed and even the moon cycle into account.
L7mm TIL that 70% of all Canadian blood plasma is actually sourced from the United States, where donors are regularly paid for their donations.
R5WY8 TIL the world's first transplanted penis was reversed two weeks later because the recipient and his wife had such a "severe psychological problem" with it.
kaGW TIL on January 1 2019, works published in 1923 will enter the public domain. These will be the first works to do so since the 1998 copyright extension commonly known as the Mickey Mouse Protection Act.