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TIL that if you leave out the © copyright symbol in your work, infringers can claim they didn’t know it was copyrighted, a legal defense that may reduce the damages you can receive.

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wLOB6 TIL that when astronomer Carl Sagan sent Apple a cease & desist for codenaming a computer after him, they changed the name to "BHA," for "Butthead Astronomer." When he then sued for libel, the court dismissed the suit, noting "one does not seriously attack a scientist using the phrase 'butthead'."
OG6G4 TIL Corporal Nand Singh earned the Victoria Cross in WW2. He captured 3 trenches, killing soldiers with his bayonet despite wounds. He earned another medal in 1947, capturing a bunker by killing enemy with his bayonet. The Pakistanis threw his body in a garbage dump, never to be recovered.
neE5Y TIL that Hitler had all the copies of the first propaganda film by Leni Riefenstahl destroyed, simply because it showed him talking closely with disgraced Nazi Ernest Röhm. Hitler had Röhm killed in the Night of the Long Knives. A single surviving print was found in England in the 1990s.
WkRV8 TIL in 2012 a lifeguard named Tommy Lopez was fired for saving a drowning man who was outside the protected area
NrgM TIL that Melbourne might have been called Batmania