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TIL due to a Copyright error that was just discovered in 2015, the Happy Birthday song had been falsely copyrighted for 80 years

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joEj TIL that US senators sought to ban ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington’ from theaters for “[making] the Senate look like a bunch of crooks”
rN1PM TIL King Orodes of Parthia abdicated in favour of his son Phraates IV, who consolidated his reign by promptly murdering his father and thirty of his brothers.
j6ejR TIL that Strom Thurmond only resigned from the US senate 6 months before his death at the age of 100
xVlGk TIL that NASA is planning to send a submarine to explore the methane northern sea of Titan, Kraken.
nEa7 TIL There is a large thunderstorm named Hector that forms almost everyday in the same spot.