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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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woL9W TIL After screening '48 Hours' Paramount wanted to fast track another project from the same team. Quickly, director Walter Hill thought of what he loved in movies in his teens like old cars, neon, high-speed pursuit, rumbles, rock stars, and motorcycles. That list became the movie 'Streets of Fire'.
Oonbg TIL the Netherlands and the british Isles of Scilly were technically at war with each other for 335 years with neither side realizing it. When peace was signed in 1986, the Dutch ambassador joked that it must have been harrowing to the Scillonians "to know we could have attacked at any moment."
9wMDQ TIL of Ernest J. King, the American Chief of Naval Operations and one of the most disliked Allied leaders. Despite his capability, King had a short temper that made him many enemies. This led President Franklin D. Roosevelt to describe King as a man who "shaves every morning with a blow torch."
KYNE TIL the CDC issued a report outlining the very real likelihood of an impending untreatable gonorrhea epidemic.
ADyYa TIL that Franz Kafka starved to death because the tuberculosis in his throat would not allow him to eat.