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TIL Henry Kissinger was an Honorary Member of The Harlem Globetrotters

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Me5Em TIL that a turtle can get so fat that it can't pull it's head back into its shell.
DQdGe TIL that after mosquitoes, other humans, snakes, and sandflies, dogs are the deadliest animal to humans.
7rOrL TIL that even though the melody of "Happy Birthday to You" was created in 1893, and none of the early printed appearances of the melody and lyrics stated a copyright notice, Warner/Chappell Music managed to keep the song out of the public domain until a court ruling in 2016.
pY19A TIL when AOL used to charge users an hourly fee for access to their services, they would add 15 seconds to the time a user was connected to the service and round up to the next whole minute (for example, a person who used the service for 12 minutes and 46 seconds would be charged for 14 minutes).
p8QkO TIL that in 2013, archaeologists consulted 3 San hunters from Namibia to help interpret human footprints left in caves in France during the last Ice Age