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TIL people use a banana for scale… when measuring radiation.

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4JvN TIL Google now receives over 100,000 copyright take-down requests an HOUR. In one week this year, they received 19 million requests as compared to an average week in 2013 when they received about 4 million.
l7k9r TIL about Daisy, the Yorkshire Terrier of the fashion designer Rudolph Moshammer. Following his murder in 2005 it was rumoured that she would have lifelong living privileges in his villa in Munich. She died in 2006, after being cared for by Moshammer's chauffeur, who had been remembered in his will.
loLyA TIL that because the USA is unlikely to extend its copyright term again, Disney has been extensively using the "Steamboat Willie" Mickey Mouse in its marketing to keep the character indefinitely protected under trademark law instead
Owk7 TIL the famine in North Korea has been so bad in recent years, that people have been executed for selling human flesh
DQMWD TIL although her 27-year-old son died from cancer in 2020, a Spanish mother was still able to fulfill her dream of becoming a grandmother by using his frozen sperm. His daughter was born in 2023.