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TIL that Youtuber KassemG stopped making videos after selling his company “Maker Studios” to Disney for $500m

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NXG8b TIL that when former White House press secretary James Brady died in 2014, his death was ruled a homicide because it was ultimately caused by a gunshot wound he sustained in 1981, during the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan
W7JMd TIL That the factions of the first democratic German parliament, were named after the hostelries at which they met - e.g. Café Milani
neDxY TIL Shouting FIRE! in a crowded theater isn’t illegal. In U.S. v. Schenck, SCOTUS decided a pamphlet opposing the draft in WWI posed a "clear and present danger" to a nation at war. But it was overturned 40 years later.
5YweD TIL The town of Buford only has one resident: 60 year-old Don Sammons. He has been all alone in the southern Wyoming town on Interstate 80 since his son moved out over three years ago.
9YXOX TIL of Japan's "Okinoshima", an island off-limits to women. Access is only granted to 200 men for one day every year after they purify themselves in the surrounding sea.