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

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Wd1A TIL that there’s a spirits company that first pours every drop of its booze over the breasts of top Playboy models before bottling. [NSFW]
VMLkD TIL Mary Jane Rathbun, better known as Brownie Mary became known for illegally baking and distributing cannabis brownies to AIDs patients in the 1980s. She was baking more than 4000 brownies per week. She was also known for wearing polyester pants suits and having a 'sailors mouth'.
7VoO TIL that visitors to the Lascaux caves in France do not see the genuine 17,000 year old art, but a replica created to help protect the originals.
wd7J TIL engineers building a bridge between Germany and Switzerland found that when the two halves met their elevations differed by 54 cm. Germany bases sea level on the North Sea, and Switzerland by the Mediterranean; someone messed up the correction, doubling it instead of cancelling it out.
g0py TIL there is a Wolfenstein 3D clone where you play as Noah and put animals to sleep on the Ark. It is the only commercially released SNES game that was not licensed, and used a hack to bypass Nintendo’s DRM.