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TIL Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, allows any company that can make functioning Star Trek technology to use the name free of charge.

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P1YxE TIL the only armed expedition that resulted in casualties in modern icelandic history happened in 1627, when a group of pirates led by a dutch convert to islam sailed from Algeria and raided the coast of Iceland, capturing 400 and killing 50 people
Y4RA TIL Night of the Living Dead is in the public domain due to a failure to register its copyright
4OZJ TIL Yakov Smirnoff, the man who created “In Soviet Russia” jokes is also a painter, and painted a 9/11 memorial mural titled “America’s Heart”. Each brush stroke represents one person that died on that day.
nebDb TIL West Point has a tradition of celebrating the student who came in last in class rank but still graduated, called the Goat. Including having each cadet give the Goat money.
YjrG TIL that Russian cosmonauts used to carry a handheld, triple barreled shotgun with a fold out machete into space to fight off bears and wolves when they landed.