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TIL that in Switzerland it’s LEGAL to download any kind of copyrighted media.

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pgP8 TIL that Theodore Roosevelt openly despised the nickname “Teddy”, and was quick to correct anyone who called him it. He preferred those working closely with him to refer to him as Colonel or Theodore.
RKk1 TIL in 2012 the largest breast cancer foundation in the United States, Susan G Komen, attempted to withdraw funding for Planned Parenthood for mammograms, the diagnostic and screening tool for breast cancer.
LQllm TIL Andrew Johnson was one of 12 US Presidents to not graduate from college, and the only one to have "no formal schooling of any kind," and Abraham Lincoln, another of the 12, "had only about a year of formal schooling of any kind."
VMd9Z TIL the English horn is not english at all. Its name comes from a mistranslation "cor angle", which means "angled horn" in French, heard instead as "cor anglais."
1aEaO TIL that the 1912 short "Saved from the Titanic" was made only 29 days after the sinking of the RMS Titanic and starred one of the survivors. It is now lost.