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TIL Stolen Tide is often used as a currency to buy drugs

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9Y6bX TIL that in 1998, Disney created a copyright law that made sure that no movies from 1923 can become free to watch and distribute for 20 more years. This copyright law expired today, January 1, 2019.
0vjN TIL that while Judge Judy was on a tour of Australia in 1999, she blasted a safe injection program saying “Give ‘em dirty needles and let ‘em die”.
JaWV TIL that rapper T.I. talked a suicidal 24-year-old man off the ledge of a 22-story building after he heard about the situation on the radio.
1axOr TIL: That spiders can regrow limbs assuming they have at least one molt cycle left in their life time. The limb starts smaller then its other limbs but can grow bigger, until normal size, after each molt. This can however come at a cost of the overall size of the spider.
0n5R TIL that after World War II, the Nazi concentration camps of Sachsenhausen and Buchenwald were repurposed as Soviet gulags, in which tens of thousands of people perished.