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TIL that the band Muse won a 500,000 Euro lawsuit against Nestle, then donated 100% of the proceeds to charity.

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jNLxj TIL in an attempt to boost car sales in 1958, now defunct car brand Edsel launched a marketing campaign to give away 1000 Appaloosa ponies. All you had to had to do was test drive an Edsel.
LaOp TIL a nurse named Sandra Clarke had to leave a terminally ill patient alone when asked to stay. When she returned, the patient had passed away from multi-organ-failure. No One Dies Alone was then created, a charity where volunteers sit with terminally ill lonely patients. it’s now international.
4Xem5 TIL that "a moron in a hurry" is a legal test for trademark infringement in which two trade marks are considered to be different enough from each other to coexist if only a moron in a hurry would confuse them. This test has been applied in cases in the United Kingdom, United States and Canada.
69718 TIL that Blue-eyed people are more likely to become alcoholics. A gene lying near the OCA2 gene on chromosome 15 carries a mutation that leads to increased alcohol tolerance, and thus a tendency to drink too much.
XEYRQ TIL that for 8 years the CIA ran Operation Midnight Climax, brothels in NYC and San Fran where they secretly administered drugs to johns to study the effects.