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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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N7Y1e TIL: With Aliens (1986), Sigourney Weaver received her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress and although she did not win, it was considered a landmark nomination for an actress to be considered for a science-fiction/horror film, a genre which previously was given little recognition
e0kMJ TIL Edgar Allen Poe once wrote a love letter to the dash, a form of punctuation he felt was unfairly demonized.
X0VaP TIL one of the reasons Persia is now called Iran was listed in the official memorandum as “From the racial standpoint Iran (Persia) was the birthplace and cradle of the Aryan race"
oBWQ8 TIL that about 25% of people who commit suicide are legally drunk before death
0dJEN TIL the bubbles in champagne form tight lines rising to the top & most other carbonated beverages don't. Champagne contains surfactant molecules that keep the bubbles from leaving a wake as they move, preventing them from acting like the connected simultaneously-rising bubbles in other drinks.