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TIL that the copyright extension on Mickey Mouse will expire in 2023 and he will then be in the public domain, unless another copyright extension is passed

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MeYa TIL Xiang Yu the night before attacking the Qin dynasty burnt all his own boats and cooking equiptment so his troops had no other option but to fight till victory or perish
Y96r TIL in 1996 the United States Air Force patented a radio device for transmitting audio speech signals (specifically voices) directly into a person’s head.
rN7jW TIL that the fiction planet of Tatooine in Star Wars was named after the city of Tataouine in Tunisia, where the Tatooine scenes were filmed.
4kgna TIL on Nov. 17, 1968, with only 50 seconds left, the television broadcast cut out abruptly from a game between the NFL's Jets and the Oakland Raiders to make way for “Heidi,” a made-for-TV children’s movie about a Swiss orphan.
XLaX TIL that an asthmatic boy died in a severe asthma attack because the school forbid asthma inhalers; while the boy was dying, the inhalers sat in a safe at the principal’s office.