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TIL the song "Happy Birthday to You" is actually in the public domain and has been since since 2017.

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jbPE TIL Lorillard Tobacco Company used to hand out Newport cigarettes to black children in playgrounds
L0lV TIL A 19 year old college student died after overdosing on caffeine, this lead the FDA to confirm that caffeine can be lethal.
oWV7 TIL that in preparation for the World Cup in Brazil there were over 250,000 citizens involuntarily removed from there homes for construction and other World Cup accommodation purposes.
mQ6Y TIL that so many Mongolians have studied at Colorado universities that the street the US Embassy to Mongolia is on was renamed “Denver Place”.
M7Gjb TIL that in 1918, Constance Markievicz was the first woman elected to the House of Commons. Markievicz was an Irish republican and refused to take her seat in line with Sinn Fein policy to protest the British empires involvement in Ireland