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TIL Vic Mizzy died in 2009 at age 93: his heirs will collect royalties on the Adams Family theme until 2084, including every time it’s played at a sports event.

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W7YxN TIL in 1947 Bing Crosby had to record a new version of "(I'm Dreaming of a) White Christmas" because the original master version of 1942 wore out, due to being constantly repressed to meet demand. This version soon replaced the original and became the standard we usually hear on the radio today.
aw969 TIL Dennis Ritchie who invented the C programming language, co-created the Unix operating system, and is largely regarded as influencing a part of effectively every software system we use on a daily basis died 1 week after Steve Jobs. Due to this, his death was largely overshadowed and ignored.
OoMaa TIL that Foreign branding is the process of naming a product to sound exotic. An example is Häagen-Dazs, which was invented in the Bronx.
5YxmQ TIL about Manganese Nodules. Found at the bottom of the ocean these rock concentrations contain all the components needed for electric car batteries. Its estimated to there are enough nodules to create over 200 million batteries in one patch alone. Their worth is estimated up to 16 trillion dollars.
QNdxE TIL that there’s a planet mostly made from diamond. The alien planet, a so-called "super-Earth," is called 55 Cancri e and was discovered in 2004 around a nearby star in our Milky Way galaxy.