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TIL that in several jurisdictions (mainly civil law ones) such as France, Canada and India, creators enjoy moral rights over their works, including right of attribution, right to pseudonym and right to integrity of their work

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JDPQ TIL a mentally ill man shot himself in the head as a suicide attempt. The bullet cured his disorder and he became a straight-A college student.
b69Bp TIL in 1944, countries agreed with the US to settle their international accounts in dollars to have gold converted at a fixed rate of $35 per ounce. In 1971, President Nixon announced the US would no longer do it, thus completely abandoning the gold standard. This was known as the 'Nixon Shock'.
wNJ1 TIL bananas are actually used for scale… for measuring radioactivity
5VoaB TIL that the Turritopsis dohrnii jellyfish can revert back to its juvenile form after reaching adulthood, essentially allowing it to bypass death and become biologically immortal.
BrB5L TIL When the US was finally able to use NBA players for the 1992 Olympics (The appearance of the legendary Dream Team), they chose to include one college player, Chris Laettner, as a nod to the previous system. The runner up was Shaquille O'Neal.