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TIL “Happy Birthday” is now in the Public Domain after Time Warner was sued in 2016

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R7WG4 TIL the author Otto Wilhelm Rahn resigned from the SS & on 3/13/1939 was found frozen to death on a mountainside near Söll, in Austria (then part of Greater Germany). His death was ruled to be a suicide by the Nazis.
NX0gP TIL John Stith Pemberton was a Confederate officer who became addicted to morphine after receiving a saber wound. Pemberton made a series of concoctions attempting to cure his addiction. Pemberton's experiments with coca and kola resulted in Pemberton's French Wine Coca and later Coca-Cola.
KOGG4 TIL that Orlando Bloom and Peter Jackson have both seen "taking the hobbits to isengard"
ADyB4 TIL Michael Jackson imagined and recorded the demo of 'Beat it' only by using his voice and layering tracks together before sending it to the producer.
JJO8 TIL a man with brain damage stuck in a coma-like state for 6 years was brought back to consciousness by doctors who implanted electrodes in his brain.