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TIL that when VCRs/Betamax initially came out, TV and film studios tried to contend that recording content from your television onto tape to watch again later constituted copyright infringement. It took a 1984 Supreme Court case to finally rule it as ‘fair use’.

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aE7L Today I learned Twitter bought Vine for $30 million months before it was even officially released.
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kJwGm TIL Kim Jong-il didn't understand that movies were fictional. He liked James Bond, Rambo, and Hong Kong action movies, but would watch them "as if they were records of reality."
lojmA TIL that Abe Lincoln and Chuck Darwin were born on the exact same date. I wonder if there are any other dates in which multiple historic figures were born.