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TIL the Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) of 1998 expires on New Years Day, 2019, finally allowing works to become part of public domain, starting with works published in 1923.

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8RG4 TIL a Swede survived for 2 months inside a snowed-in car without food by “hibernating like a bear does”
4Y4N TIL Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania during WWII, saved 3000-6000 Jewish lives by unlawfully issuing transit visas so that they could travel to Japanese territory, risking his career and his family’s lives.
P1jL TIL that despite the fear projected by mass media, virtually all of the few known candy poisoning incidents involved parents who poisoned their own children’s candy.
NXpY1 TIL: In the UK they call Rube Goldberg machines "Heath Robinson contraptions"
x0Lk TIL British scientists found three previously unknown species of mushrooms in a commercial packet purchased from a small Chinese supermarket in London