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TIL millions of sunflowers soak up nuclear radiation in Fukushima after scientists discover sunflowers can ‘clean up’ nuclear waste in soil!

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9Y8RX TIL you rarely hear Happy Birthday on TV because the song was copyrighted from 1935 to 2014. In 2014 Time Warner paid 14 million to release the song to the public domain rather than face a lawsuit over their aggressive ownership of it which was netting them 2 million a year.
8DAL TIL Paul Shaffer, David Letterman’s band leader, co-wrote “It’s Raining Men”.
xVL0b TIL that George Lucas tried to get the rights to make a Flash Gordon movie in the late 1970s. He was denied, so instead he decided to make his own sci-fi movie called Star Wars
VpXQ TIL in 1960, Congress created a medal equal to the Medal of Honor specifically to confer it upon four chaplains for actions in WWII.
BgX4x TIL The US military sprayed 73 million liters of Agent Orange on Vietnam and was originally called Operation Hades. US soldiers, unaware of the dangers, sometimes showered in the empty 55-gallon drums, used them to store food, and repurposed them as barbecue pits.