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TIL That the ‘Happy Birthday’ song had an 80 year copyright claim on it and was only recently abolished

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9YNx6 TIL the trollface meme “(Problem?)” is copyrighted. At the meme’s height, when it was plastered on t-shirts the creator would would pull in between $10,000 and $15,000 every few months.
d8NOQ TIL That Animators In Japan Are So Underpaid And Worn Followers Started A Philanthropic Structure So Struggling Anime Artists Can Make It Through In Tokyo.
QJBxd TIL the phrase shit happens was first observed in 1964
4kK96 TIL about Mars Direct, a 1989 plan to get humans to Mars within ten years, using just two launches of a large rocket system and utilising local Martian resources
9aV7 TIL an American who disappeared in China in 2004 is strongly suspected of having been kidnapped by North Korean agents and may still be alive in Pyongyang.