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TIL In 1986, Ginger Rogers sued the US distributors of the Federico Fellini film Ginger and Fred for trademark infringement. The court ruled in favor of the defendants. Now, the "Rogers test" is used in cases where trademark holders' rights conflict with artistic expression.

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KgPQ TIL in 2004 a man was found naked and beaten behind a Burger King. With dissociative amnesia, and despite multiple attempts including DNA, scientists have yet to determine the identity of this man who calls himself Benjaman Kyle.
yQ9Ov TIL a young man was killed when his head became stuck underneath a cinema seat as he looked for some possessions he’d dropped
0dWV1 TIL French King Charles the Simple was the youngest son of Charles the Stammerer. Charles the Simple inherited the throne after the death of his older brother Louis the Child. Some claimed that his cousin Charles the Fat should be king. Eventually King Charles the Simple was crowned in 911.
6E16Z TIL about Charity Hospital the second oldest hospital in the United States that was abandoned after Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans still spends $3 million dollars a year securing the building, after a $1.2 billion dollar hospital was opened to replace it.
ep68D TIL that at one of the WWII death camps the prisoners rose up & killed most of the guards. After about 300 escaped, fear of discovery led officials try to hide their war crimes by ordering that the camp be closed & sold to a forestry service, who planted trees there.