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TIL That Peter Pan has an Exception to Public Domain Law, so it can Continue to Fund a Children’s Hospital

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LnBm TIL that no point within the state of Michigan is more than 6 miles from a lake
XEVlQ TIL in 2007, biologists discovered a harpoon from the 1800s lodged in a 50-ton Bowhead whale, leading them to believe the whale was at least 115 years old. This would place the whale in the Victorian Era. The Bowhead is believed to live up to 200 years.
8aNlG TIL, FDR asked singer Eddie Cantor if he could get a million people to send in a dollar to support polio research. He replied that it would be easier to ask for dimes. By the end of the month, the White House had received 2.68 million dimes ($268k) and the March of Dimes began.