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TIL that the Ohio State University trademarked the word "THE" for use on clothing.

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6mXX TIL Only 2 countries in the world allow advertising prescription medication to consumers, the US and New Zealand
wolZY TIL that a rancher in Oregon named Bill Brown would often write checks on any paper available. This often included soup can labels and newspaper margins. As he was rich and known for this, the banks would cash the checks without question.
l7jNr TIL Kenny Lofton and Tim Stoddard are the only two athletes to have played in both a Men's NCAA Final Four and an MLB World Series game. They are also both alumni of East Chicago Washington High School
9jwr TIL that a cat once co-authored a physics paper. In 1975, a physicist had just finished writing a paper and was ready to publish but realized that he had used ‘we’ instead of 'I’ throughout, despite being the sole author. Not wanting to edit the paper, he listed his cat, Chester, as a co-author.
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