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TIL in 2016, Disney sold the streaming rights for the original Star Wars films to Turner until 2024. Now that Disney is planning to start a streaming service, they've repeatedly been asking for the rights back but Turner has refused every time.

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GYbE5 TIL of Ken Alibek, last USSR 1st Deputy Director of Biopreparat. Before defecting to the US in 1992 he destroyed vast bioweapon (BW) stockpiles and production facilities but could not stop all future BW work in Russia. His 1999 book Biohazard details the USSR’s secret, treaty-violating BW program.
LomP TIL: An Armorer at Barrett Firearms once received a call from US Marines while they were engaged in a firefight and their Barrett rifle was malfunctioning. He walked them through how to repair it over the phone, enabling them to engage their enemies.
ZElG TIL: 51% of American households pay no income tax
QNKRM TIL that our galaxy, the Milky Way, is going to collide with the Andromeda galaxy in about 4.5 billion years
R5VW9 TIL tourists often cry when they sit on the coffee shop couch from Friends during guided tours of Warner Bros. Studios.