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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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w7kM TIL The Hammer of Thor is one of the official religious emblems available for headstones in U.S. military cemeteries.
78RKP TIL Ginkgo trees are so hardy that six of them are known to have survived the atomic bomb and are still growing in Hiroshima. The species of these trees is called relict. This is because they have been living on the planet for more than 200 million years.
e9M5 TIL in Leeds there is a building that was designed so poorly it creates a powerful wind tunnel effect around that is so strong it can knock people of their feet
yZwl TIL that certain bears in Russia have become addicted to sniffing Jet Fuel out of discarded barrels. Going as far as stalking helicopters for the drops of fuel they leave behind.
x6NM0 TIL about mechanical television from the 20s and 30s, which used a rotating device to scan a scene and generate a signal which would then be viewed on the other end similarly