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TIL Restaurants can sing ‘Happy Birthday’ now because the copyrights claims are now invalid.

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rR7QM TIL that the Spartans actually surrendered, they were not as mighty as hyped to be. They surrendered to an Athenian army at the Battle of Sphacteria. And i'm not talking about some low key warriors, they were Spartan elites. 120 of them.
wonXJ TIL after a failed coup attempt in Japan, Masakatsu Morita acted as a second for the leader's seppuku. After 3 failed attempts to behead him, another man performed the deed. Morita then attempted seppuku himself, but stabbed himself too shallow to be fatal, and had to request his own beheading.
mxKVY TIL there are plans to dig a tunnel under the Baltic Sea, directly linking Finland and Estonia's capital cities by rail
W4PA TIL In 1986, Scott Weiland met bassist Robert DeLeo at a Black Flag concert in Long Beach, California. The two of them were discussing their love interests, when they realized they were both dating the same girl. They developed a bond over the incident, and ended up forming Stone Temple Pilots.
6EYAW TIL Fireflies are the most efficient lights in the world. 100% of energy is emitted as light. Fireflies: larvae & eggs glow, talk to each other with light, imitate each other, then eat other fireflies, are on almost every continent, taste bad, are medically and scientifically useful, adults live<1mo