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TIL Night of the Living Dead (1968) has been in the public domain since its release because when distribution changed of the original title, Night of the Flesh Eaters, they accidentally removed the copyright notice.

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b9jo4 TIL about WhatThreeWords, a navigation system where the entire world's surface is divided into 3 meter squares, and each square can be described by a unique combination of 3 simple words.
Q46d TIL there are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first ten moves in chess.
kOkM4 TIL a Magnetar Starquake occured on Dec.27, 2004 that would have probably registered Mag.23 on the Richter scale, blinding satellites and ionizing Earth's upper atmosphere. Coincidentally a day earlier, Dec. 26, saw the worst tsunami in modern history
BgaNy TIL: Uranium was named after Uranus, which had only recently been discovered.
97GD TIL despite over 5 million square feet of floor space, the Pentagon in Washington was constructed in such a way that no point in the building is more than a 10 minute walk from any other point in the building.