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TIL Neil Young said “Piracy is the new radio. That’s how music gets around”

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V4ep TIL that a boy was allowed to change his own name when he was 9 years old. Today, he is Dr. Loki Skylizard and he is a cardiothoracic surgeon from New Jersey.
d8nEr TIL about Derek Bentley, who was hanged on 28 January 1953 for a murder he did not commit.
1748 TIL that in order to capture footage of tigers hunting in the wild, instead of using a human camera crew, the BBC gave cameras to a team of elephants and trained them to operate the film equipment.
kOZRm TIL - HTTP error code 451 = "Unavailable For Legal Reasons". Displayed when the user requests an resource which cannot be served a web page that is censored by a government. The number 451 is a reference to Ray Bradbury's 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, in which books are outlawed.
PP8n TIL some birds fly from Alaska to Northern mexico without sleeping when migrating. And the military is studying them to make sleepless soldiers.