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TIL Woodie Guthrie’ copywrite claim to “This Land is Your Land” was for 28 years and stated “anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don’t give a dern.” Today multiple organizations claim copyright for the song.

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9YKVM TIL that police officers carry teddy bears to give to children in distress.
vg8j TIL a 16 year old named Max Wade managed to pull off a heist of movie proportions when he rappel’d into a Ferrari shop and stole Guy Fieri’s Lamborghini, and the janitor suspected of helping was never found.
9Md6 TIL Finland was the only country to pay off its WWI debt to the US, and finished in 1976.
loOma TIL that in 1994, the Surgeon General of the U S, was fired for saying masturbation is "part of human sexuality, and perhaps should be taught."
1aAOO TIL priest Joseph Müller told a joke of a dying German soldier who asked to see people for whom he was laying down his life. The nurse laid a portrait of Hitler and Göring next to him. The soldier said "Now I can die like Jesus Christ" [between two criminals]. Müller was executed for the joke.