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TIL the people who falsely claimed the copyright to “Happy Birthday to You” made $2M a year for decades until the song was ruled public domain.

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dDX9Q TIL The modern Western salute originated in France when knights greeted each other to show friendly intentions by raising their visors to show their faces (according to some modern military manuals, though the history is uncertain and other theories exist)
4kA4g TIL To promote his new movie Lost in Space (1998), Matt LeBlanc appeared on three different talk shows (Live with Regis & Kathie Lee, The Rosie O'Donnell Show, and Late Night with Conan O'Brien), which all aired on the same day.
KLJQ TIL that NASA has a plan if astronauts “Lose It”, and that plan is to tie them up with duct tape.
Rxpa TIL Actress Brittany Murphy and her widower both passed away of pneumonia and severe anemia in their home nearly 5 months apart. Murphy’s mom believes both her daughter and son-in-law were victims of toxic mold.
R7Jdl TIL: in the 1960s a boy smuggled in three giant African snails into Florida, and later released them. Within seven years there were an estimated 18,000 of the creatures in the wild, taking 10 years and over $1M to eradicate.