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TIL That the Happy Birthday song was Copyrighted until 2016

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1aGE7 TIL Cap’n Crunch once gave a free prize whistle that blew a 2600 Hz tone - so if you dialed a long distance phone number and blew the whistle, it gave you free long distance calls.
9O7G TIL that King George VI was appalled when the South African government instructed him to only shake hands with white people while on his visit there in 1947. He referred to his South African bodyguards as “the Gestapo”.
Wp9N TIL that only 5 human beings remain alive who were born in the 1800s.
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