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TIL that the Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind will be in the Public Domain in 2020.

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wL7rM TIL When Captain Cook returned from his first voyage he brought with him the term ‘tattoo’ if not the practice itself. While inking designs onto the skin was no new thing in 18th Century Europe, ensured much attention to this ancient art and introduced a new word, ‘tattoo’.
1aP1P TIL Bayer (The same one that makes Aspirin) discovered,produced, and sold Heroin in 1898.
pM4A TIL there is a small, one-story building in Wilmington, Delaware which serves as the official address of nearly 300,000 companies. Up to 200,000 are believed to be shell companies.
PJVw TIL World War II broke out before the VW Bug could go into production, so the Germans used Volkswagen parts to produce the Volkswagen Kübelwagen and the “Schwimmwagen” instead. The Schwimmwagen was basically an amphibious military version of the Beetle, and over 14,000 of them fought in WWII.
0d6kM TIL about netboy which was a comic posted online in 1994. The comic is based around people that you might meet online during that time-period.