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TIL Anne Frank's diary entered the public domain the same day as Hitler's Mein Kampf. And that a copyright dispute still swirls around the diary.

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lowxA TIL: Of the 22 people voted to award the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar, 15 of them are are now either banned from FIFA for life, suspended, imprisoned, or fighting extradition to the USA to face federal charges. Only one still actually works for FIFA
kJ6g TIL that when Bill Nye The Science Guy’s father was a POW in Japan during WWII for four years, he made sundials to figure out the latitudinal location of the prison camp.
Q49M TIL that the guards of the Tomb of the Unknowns do not wear rank insignia so that they do not outrank the soldiers buried in the tomb, whatever their ranks may have been.
N761E TIL that the claw part of a hammer is also called the peen.
MepLW TIL that "Texas is a common law marriage state. Therefore, 2 willing parties (who are over 18, unmarried and aren’t related) are legally married if they publicly announce they’re married 3 times."