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TIL The Abu Simbel Temple from Ancient Egypt was moved brick-by-brick to a new location to protect from flood water

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p8omN TIL the "Clear and Present Danger" doctrine is no longer the standard of discerning when speech is criminal. The current standard is called "Imminent lawless action" and was established by the United States Supreme Court in Brandenburg v. Ohio in 1969.
5YMKp TIL that counter strike was a mod of half-life created by two programmers which was released in 1999. Due to the popularity of the mod, sales for half-life went up and, subsequently, the two friends were hired by valve who also acquired the game’s intellectual property.
9wOXp TIL Richard Feynman taught a two-year introductory physics course at Caltech from 1961 to 1963 and his original students had no textbook—their only written materials were created "on the fly". These notes were later published and used as the introductory physics textbook for nearly two decades
rRVEx TIL Frank Zappa came up with a way to distribute music digitally in the 80's
W7XQB TIL about a monument in Kyoto, Japan called Mimizuka (Ear Mound). Known as the city's least mentioned and most often avoided tourist attraction, it contains at least 68,000 noses severed during the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598).