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TIL Anti-piracy advert “You wouldn’t download a car” committed copyright theft of the music.

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Oo4MR TIL that it was Steve Ditko who created Marvel's classic Corner Box featuring a headshot of the title character on the cover.
JYZxV TIL that not only did Robert Todd Lincoln watch his father die, but he also saw the assassinations of Garfield and McKinley. When Roosevelt took office, Lincoln wrote “I do not congratulate you, for I have seen too much of the seamy side of the Presidential Robe to think it an enviable garment".
OWgY TIL Captain Planet had an episode dealing with an HIV positive child voiced by Neil Patrick Harris, and Elizabeth Taylor voiced his mother
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Me41K TIL that same-sex sexual activity is punishable by death in Iran, but Iranians can get a state-sponsored sex change operation to avoid punishment. Iran performs more sex reassignment surgeries than any other country in the world after Thailand.