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TIL the character Sherlock Holmes officially entered public domain in 2023.

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xX1D TIL that 2 years after Titanic sank, the Empress Of Ireland sank in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and lost 68.5% of all passengers (.5% more than Titanic!). The event was buried in the papers because of WWI.
x6LO7 TIL of the 78 players who have won a Heisman Trophy, 15 never played one game in the NFL, including the first Heisman Trophy winner, Jay Berwanger and most recently 2003 Heisman winner, Jason White of Oklahoma.
4eE5 TIL that the planet Saturn radiates 2.5 times more energy into space than it receives from the Sun.
Ed0P TIL that the actress who voiced Snow White in the original Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was forbidden to appear in any other film, television or media after the film was released until her death. Disney didn’t want to “Ruin the illusion of Snow White.”
GYOVJ TIL of golfer Margaret Abbott, the first American woman to win an Olympic event. Rather than receiving a gold medal, she won a porcelain bowl, as was customary at the time