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TIL that Mr Rogers testified before the Supreme Court defending the position that home recordings for personal use do not constitute copyright infringement

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BgdAK TIL about Prophyrios, a whale that wreaked havoc on ships over a 50 year period in Greece during the middle ages. The Greek king made it an important matter to capture it, though he could not come up with a way to do so.
M7KMK TIL the incredible story of Alan Page: First ever NFL defensive MVP (1971); after the NFL attended law school; became a Minnesota Supreme Court Justice and served for more than 20 years.
4OVN TIL Adm. Grace Hopper basically invented high level programming using concepts that still apply today.
OG4Me TIL there is a modern world capital that is an uninhabitable ghost town. Plymouth, Montserrat is a modern Pompeii, destroyed by volcanic eruptions in the late 1990s
j6rRv TIL that despite their presence in pop culture, the Nine Realms of Norse cosmology are never clearly defined or listed in any of the sources of old Norse folklore that survived to the modern day