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TIL that Mickey Mouse is set to become public domain on January 1, 2024

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8abp4 TIL Tom Scholz of the band Boston has his Master's in mechanical engineering from MIT and started his own R&D company in the 1970s.
BrnNK TIL that the 1985 discovery of the TITANIC was actually part of a top secret US government program. The mission was to investigate two US nuclear submarines that sank in the 1960's. Discovering the Titanic was just a cover story.
WkV8A TIL Raccoons are an invasive species in Central Europe and Japan
D17Bp TIL Ryan Gosling gained 60 pounds by drinking melted ice cream to play the father in Peter Jackson's 'The Lovely Bones.' He was then told he was too fat to play the part and the role went to Mark Wahlberg.
4XPd5 TIL about the Mirror test, which attempts to determine if an animal possesses the ability of visual self-recognition. The animal gets marked and is then given a mirror. If the animal investigates the mark,it is taken as an indication that the animal perceives the reflected image as itself.