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TIL that 80% of books published 1924-63 never had their copyrights renewed and are now in the public domain

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kJwDW TIL that after his presidency, George Washington opened a whisky distillery
6944Z TIL That Whistleblowers can make huge amounts of money from the SEC, if they voluntarily provide original, timely and credible information
pW48 TIL That Thomas Edison offered Nikola Tesla a $50,000 (Roughly 1,000,000 today) bonus if he could improve his dynamo design. Edison refused to pay him claiming it was a joke. Tesla quit immediately.
POLZ TIL George Washington almost joined the Royal Navy (British Navy) but his mom talked him out of it.
YGxd TIL of Burton Joseph, a Jew who representing the ACLU, defended the right for Neo-Nazis to march through Skokie, IL—a community where 1 in 6 residents were Holocaust survivors—because he believed in freedom of speech.