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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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l7jM7 TIL the Republic of Dagestan is one of the most linguistically diverse for its size administrative divisions on earth. With territory similar in size to Costa Rica, it has 14 oficial languages and between 30 and 50 native languages in total. Some are spoken in a single village.
e0JRL TIL that vanilla beans (like coffee beans) all taste differently based on their country or origin. Some taste like figs, others like cherries, some like licorice and all have a primary flavor of vanilla.
9wQV7 TIL the Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894 refers to a supposed newspaper article that said because of horses, in "50 years, every street in London will be buried under nine feet of manure." It's an analogy for how new technologies (in this case cars) can take care of problems that seemed unsolvable.
x7K7 TIL middle school students across the US are being given upwards of 5 hours of homework per night while countries with better educational rankings like Finland only assign 30 min.
GAo9Q TIL of the Long March 3B disaster. On 15 February 1996, the Long March 3B launch rocket failed during launch, veering off course immediately after liftoff and crashing into a village. The Chinese government reported that six people were killed and 57 injured. The village has since disappeared.