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TIL Cisco owns the iOS trademark and licenses it to Apple

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K8L6 TIL that a teenage girl, Claudette Colvin, did the exact same thing as Rosa Parks months prior, but the NAACP didn’t stand up for her because she was an unwed, teen mother.
9YwK7 Orcas hunt great white sharks —yes, great white sharks— for their livers.
4kNga TIL a 19th century self-help movement called “Ralstonism” (named after author Everett Ralston) convinced the Purina Mills folks to rename their company Ralston-Purina. The name “Everett Ralston” was a pseudonym and the man never existed.
5YY5B TIL That the US Coast Guard still has a tall sailing ship in active service, the USCGC Eagle
OoodY We ask a scientist who has peered around it.