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TIL the satellite LES-1 ceased transmissions in 1967, but randomly started transmitting again in 2012.

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5Voop TIL that Yoko Ono, the wife of musician John Lennon, is the great-granddaughter of Yasuda Zenjiro, the founder of the Yasuda Zaibatsu that got dissolved at the end of World War II.
YKLB TIL “blowjob” used to be “Below job” in Victorian England, but got shortened to “Blow job” over time
Mwkm TIL Restaurants can sing ‘Happy Birthday’ now because the copyrights claims are now invalid.
6ENXW TIL that the Germans thought that the shotgun was too inhuman a weapon, and lodged a complaint against the US.
xVOlo TIL that when trying to expand into the China in the late 1980s, KFC mistakenly mistranslated their famous “It’s Finger Lickin’ Good” slogan to “Eat Your Fingers Off”