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TIL the famous song "Singin' in the Rain" passed into public domain in the U.S. in January of this year.

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dDpRd TIL the BBC received over 47,000 complaints about its plans to screen "Jerry Springer: The Opera" in 2005. It was the most complaints ever received about a British television broadcast, and was attributed to an orchestrated campaign by Christian groups
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