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TIL “Night of the Living Dead” (1968) is part of the public domain because the distributor forgot to put a copyright notice on the title card

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XJEr TIL 1 Millihelen is the amount of beauty required to launch a single ship.
rRX5W TIL "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" is a cover of a 1939 South African song called "Mbube," recorded in Zulu by Soloman Linda & the Evening Birds. The original is now public domain, but "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," with additional lyrics in English ("In the jungle, the mighty jungle...") is under copyright.
dwM9 TIL Benjamin Franklin considered fishing “unprovoked murder” and refused to eat them, until he witnessed smaller fish in cod stomachs on a trip to New York, after which he reasoned “ if you eat one another, I don’t see why I mayn’t eat you…”
LkbDm TIL: that ostrich meat is red meat unlike other poultry. It is closer too beef than it is chicken.
LkW5Z TIL Margaret Thatcher was reportedly more proud of being the first Prime Minister with a science degree than becoming the first woman.