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TIL "escalator" was originally trademarked by a company but in 1949 ajudged to be public property due to popularity

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0w5Qv TIL about the Rihanna curse, when horrible weather in the UK, New Zealand, and Romania coincided with the song Umbrella being the #1 song in those countries
XE69R TIL that Nabisco is abbreviated from it's earlier name: National Biscuit Company.
BrnNK TIL that the 1985 discovery of the TITANIC was actually part of a top secret US government program. The mission was to investigate two US nuclear submarines that sank in the 1960's. Discovering the Titanic was just a cover story.
X0pK8 TIL about the Henokiens, an association of companies that have been continuously operating and remain family-owned for 200 years or more, and whose descendants still operate at management level. It counts 54 members
R7Rkl TIL Florida has almost twice as many boating accidents as the next highest state(California) which has about twice as many as the third highest (New York)