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TIL legendary sing-songwriter and inventor of the Jello Shot, Tom Lehrer, transferred all his music into the public domain and all of his recorded songs can be downloaded for free.

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5BaP TIL after the defeat of Nazi Germany, German civilians were sometimes forced to tour concentration camps and in some cases to exhume mass graves of Nazi victims.
Z8Edo TIL Tom Hulce practiced piano four hours a day for his role in Amadeus, but the music ended up being dubbed in anyway.
mbbM TIL Galaxy Quest, a satire of Star Trek and fandom, is so popular with the latter’s fans that it was named the 7th best Star Trek film at the 2013 Star Trek Convention. Actors of TOS, TNG, Voyager and DS9 also have expressed admiration for the film.
d8y89 TIL that Christian buildings are the only religious buildings on the continent of Antarctica. Although they are used mostly for Christian worship, the Chapel of the Snows has also been used for Buddhist and Bahá'í ceremonies.
4XGag TIL the 2nd oldest person to host Saturday Night Live was a non-celebrity who was born in 1897. Miskel Spillman, a German immigrant, joked "I'm 80 years old. I need one more cheap thrill, since my doctor told me I only have another 25 years left."