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TIL anthropomorphism is defined as the tendency to attribute human forms, behaviors, and emotions to non-human animals or objects.

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9xJ7 TIL Apple lost its rights to use the iPhone trademark in Brazil because a local company, Gradiente Eletronicas, had registered it back in 2000.
0ERj TIL two British students tried to kidnap Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home in 1964; when he answered the door, he convinced them not to kidnap him by saying “I suppose you realize if you do, the Conservatives will win the election by 200 or 300”
RLb1 TIL during Winter War, Finnish fighters propped up frozen Soviet soldiers to intimidate Soviet troops
Jgp8 TIL that in season 1 episode 6 of the Dr Who series, it is mentioned that a meteor would crash in Russia in 2013. The episode was aired in 2005.
VdR8 TIL There is a movement occurring in a small town in Canada called ‘Save Us Bacon’ that is pushing to have Kevin Bacon come and reenact the plot of Footloose in order to end various laws against gathering in public and listening to music in public, among others.