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TIL the copyright for the song “Happy Birthday to You” expires in the EU on December 31st, 2016

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woEdP TIL: In WW2, the Japanese developed Defoliation Bacilli Bombs to launch biological attacks on farmland, reservoirs, wells and populated areas using anthrax, plague fleas, typhoid, cholera, and the bubonic plague. Unit 731 created it, and became bioweapons researchers and were not prosecuted.
xVbG5 TIL that scammers wore a realistic silicone mask and impersonated a prominent public figure via video chat in order to steal €80m (£70m; $90m) from French CEOs and other wealthy victims. The fake figure said he needed the money to make secret payments to hostage takers.
nemKP TIL that in the oldest preserved manuscript of revelations the number of the beast is 616, not 666.
Oop9R TIL about Boarding School Syndrome - a proposed group of psychological issues experienced by children who had attended boarding school from a young age which include abandonment issues, difficulty maintaining relationships, depression, substance abuse, anxiety and anger management issues.
VDwm TIL of the Ocoee Massacre, on election day 1920 over 50 to 60 African Americans were killed when one African American man attempted to vote.