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TIL that H&R Block owns the trademark for the GIF file format.

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OowlL TIL Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman) was not only a nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, West Virginia and Ontario. He was a vegitarian who loved animals dearly and had a pet wolf that followed him after he healed its injured leg.
8amg8 TIL: “Good Germans” is an ironic term, referring to German citizens during and after World War II who claimed not to have supported the Nazi regime.
D1X6V TIL English rock band 10cc’s 1975 mini-operetta “Une Nuit A Paris” became an inspiration for both Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” and the overture for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Phantom of the Opera.”
QLg6 TIL that since the 19th century, western music has had a ‘Pitch Shift’ - in effect, a C in Mozart’s day was half of a semitone lower than a C is today - and all music today is sharper than several composers wrote it.
LQQWZ TIL that Stede Bonnet (of "Our Flag Means Death" fame) was an actual person who worked with Blackbeard.