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TIL Most movies depicting death by lava get it wrong, because you would not sink into the lava due to its density.

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Mnj8 TIL due to a Copyright error that was just discovered in 2015, the Happy Birthday song had been falsely copyrighted for 80 years
BgrQb TIL that the avant-guard Jazz musician Sun Ra is considered one the 20th centuries most prolific musical artists, having written over a thousand tracks.
BgEke TIL about the "Scaptia beyonceae", an Australian horsefly named after Beyoncé
nE5B TIL When the leading emergency asthma medication Albuterol’s patent expired, the patent holding pharmaceutical companies lobbied to have their own inhalers banned based on environmental issues, allowing them to file a new patent, and continue to monopolize the market.
DnNP TIL that the first “men’s rights movement” dates to the 1920s; under the slogan of “equal rights for men”, they opposed alimony, child support, and “the favoritism of the authorities in favor of women”