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TIL Former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il once claimed to have invented hamburgers

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8eRKG TIL about the Public Resource License of Scientific Advancement | Oxford | Released in 2021 to prevent universities from patenting student inventions, corps from patenting life/meds, and allows for any concept or work to be protected from WIPO so all humans can use freely; built from corp. law.
mxpGY TIL The last known subject of Queen Victoria was Violet Brown of Jamaica, who was born in 1900 and died in 2017 at the age of 117.
XyPD TIL a hero of the Harlem Hellfighters routed 36 Germans single-handedly, while rescuing a fellow soldier and suffering 22 wounds at Argonne Forest…then died 10 years later, as a destitute alcoholic, after being denied disability and a purple heart.
p89pZ TIL Augustus Caesar is estimated at having a net worth of $4.6 trillion because he “personally owned all of Egypt”
nPWP TIL that according to Mr. Rodgers every cardigan sweater that he changed at the beginning of the show was made by his mother.