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TIL Apple Was Sued By The Beatles For Copyright Infringement And The Beatles Won

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laxB TIL that the Happy Birthday song was placed into the public domain in September, 2015.
gLDW TIL that Wilt Chamberlain was born in West Philadelphia and died in Bel Air.
ZpENo TIL: A conquest dynasty in the history of China refers to a Chinese dynasty established by non-Han ethnicities which ruled parts or all of China proper, the traditional heartland of the Han people, and whose rulers may or may not have fully assimilated into the dominant Han culture.
v5QR TIL that a small town in England has hosted a mob ‘football’ game annually for over 800 years. There is only one rule: Players are not allowed to kill one another.
OoKe1 Today I learned that the Germanic peoples, particularly the Vikings, often buried their dead in ships or boats. The largest discovered Viking ship grave is over 1000 years old and 65 feet long.