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TIL: Despite many of their most popular movies (Tarzan, Hercules, Pinocchio, Sleeping Beauty) coming from the free public domain, the Walt Disney Company actively fights to make sure Mickey Mouse will never enter the public domain.

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00vR TIL In 1120 drunk sailors crashed a ship carrying the sole male heir to the English throne, leading to his untimely demise and inciting 20 years of civil war.
Y5eB TIL that the idea of every fingerprint being completely unique is false, as there’s evidence of fingerprints so similar they were able to misguide sensors.
YpykA TIL: The World Wingsuit League held the first and second World Wingsuit Championships in Tianmen. On October 8, 2013, during a training jump for the second world championships, Viktor Kováts plunged to his death when he was unable to open his parachute.
eplGL TIL in 1452/1453 a mystery eruption took place that expelled more than six times as much matter as the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo. Its location remains unidentified
PYEbJ TIL that the word “she” only appears once in J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit”