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TIL FOX owns the rights to the Simpsons until 2082

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9wkNQ TIL about the "Book of Negroes", an official record of 3,000 Black Loyalists, mostly former slaves, evacuated to Nova Scotia (and freedom) after the American Revolutionary War
1Nm8 TIL Bill Shepherd, first Commander of the International Space Station, was a Navy SEAL selected as astronaut. When asked what he does best in his astronaut interview, he said: “Kill people with a knife”
ANZKx TIL of the ship MS Hans Hedtoft which hit an iceberg in January 1959. After sending urgent SOS messages, the ship then sunk in a matter of hours with all 59 aboard perishing. It is the most recent ship to have been sunk with casualties by an iceberg.
0KB5 TIL a software company buried a $1,000 prize deep in its Terms of Service to see if anyone actually read them. After 5 months and over 3,000 sales, someone finally asked about the prize
W7ZX4 TIL that most pig butchering Scammers (the ones that send you random texts and try to build a relationship until they take all your money) are slaves being forced by their government (Cambodia) or gangs to commit fraud