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TIL that Apple does not have a trademark on the “i” prefix.

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R7PB9 Today I learned of the severed feet of Salish Sea in the Pacific Northwest. Since 2007 at least 20 human feet have washed up on shore. It has been blamed on everything from a serial killer to plane crashes to a tsunami with the most likely explanation being some combination of these.
Om5Y TIL The Great Clock of Westminster, commonly referred to as Big Ben, withstood about a dozen attacks by German bombers during the Second World War.
gMbB8 TIL that grain dust can cause explosions.
R5rej TIL it was Avi Arad's idea to make Stan Lee cameos a tradition, but Sam Raimi originally didn't want Lee to cameo in Spider-Man, saying, "imagine you’re a minor director in England doing Macbeth and you’re told, 'Put the writer in the play.' It sounds absurd."
DMRP TIL that a patent on raising a sunken ship by pumping it full of buoyant balls was denied because of prior art in a 1949 Donald Duck comic