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TIL that in order to get around the constitutional limits on copyright the MPAA president proposed to make it last “forever minus one day”

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gMW6A TIL there are myths of an advanced civilization of red haired people who disappeared after the last ice age (5,000+ years ago)
1jPd TIL in 2016 thousands of people signed an online petition demanding that retired pornographic industry actress Mia Khalifa be named the ambassador to Saudi Arabia under the new American government
kJ5Ad TIL 4% of people have never had a headache
rRPJ0 TIL about 19th century Empress Elisabeth of Austria, she had her baby taken away by her mother-in-law who named child after herself, refused to allow Elisabeth to breastfeed or care for her own child. Her second daughter born year later was also taken from her
0n5R TIL that after World War II, the Nazi concentration camps of Sachsenhausen and Buchenwald were repurposed as Soviet gulags, in which tens of thousands of people perished.