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TIL in 1996 ASCAP threatened Girl Scouts of America for singing campfire songs without paying licensing fees.

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VJjD TIL there is a long-standing and heated territorial dispute between Canada and Denmark over an uninhabited island. Interestingly, if the island is split in half as recently proposed, it would double the number of land borders of each country.
oBvG7 TIL after the Portland Police Chief said drug suspects have "no right to privacy" regarding warrantless searches of their curbside trash, journalists took his trash and published what they found
9YOm6 TIL that I don't need to buy yeast to make bread, it will spontaneously grow in the kitchen.
dDNrK TIL the Swedish Air Force built roads to serve as emergency airfields in case of a war, even putting aprons at the ends of the backup runways.
kMQ5 TIL Violets can be smelled for only a few moments at a time because they get their scent from ionine which shuts the smell receptors off after simulating them. After a few breaths the scent pops up again but the brain registers it as a new stimulus. So everytime you smell a violet is a first time.