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TIL Tom Lehrer transferred the rights to his music and lyrics to the public domain and all are free for download

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e0ojk TIL that when Wayne Rogers left MAS*H, the producers tried to sue him for breach of contract. They discovered that Rogers had never actually signed his contract, having objected to a morals clause, and that he had been a free agent the entire time.
Y7WLW TIL the hottest place in the universe is on Earth. In a lab, scientists created plasma with temperatures of 5 trillion degrees Celsius, hotter than the center of the sun.
lo9OA TIL about Chionis of Sparta, an ancient Greek Olympian whose long jump record of over 7 meters at the Olympic games of 656 BC would have won him gold at the 1896 Olympics and placed him in the top eight of the next 10 games, through the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki.
vPEj4 TIL Jim Carrey was trained by a specialist that trained CIA operatives to endure torture. While working on The Grinch, he wanted to quit because of the 8 hours of the heavy make up prep, but the producer hired the specialist and Carrey was able to go through the make up process 100 times.
oaor TIL texting is considered to be closer to speaking (“finger speaking”) than it is to writing; it has many hallmarks of an evolving language in its own right with a unique grammar and dialect. Rather than hurting people’s writing skills, texting may provide bidialectical benefits to the brain.