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TIL literacy rate for Afghan women is only 12%

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jyOp TIL The United States first space station, Skylab crashed in Australia. The county where it crashed fined NASA $400 for littering. NASA never paid the ticket.
7rOrL TIL that even though the melody of "Happy Birthday to You" was created in 1893, and none of the early printed appearances of the melody and lyrics stated a copyright notice, Warner/Chappell Music managed to keep the song out of the public domain until a court ruling in 2016.
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PYwJV TIL that Charles Morton, a 17th century minister and scientist, wrote a treatise on how birds migrated to the Moon and back every winter. Morton believed that they would encounter no air resistance or be affected by gravity, and use excess fat to sustain themselves.