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TIL Play-Doh’s scent is trademarked...and that you can trademark smells.

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ybxe TIL that Get Smart’s hilarious Don Adams served honorably as a Marine during WWII and fought on Guadalcanal, the only survivor of his platoon. Later, he served as a Drill Instructor. Ooh Rah Mr. Adams on this Memorial Day!
5YAX8 TIL President Andrew Jackson's pet parrot that had to be removed from Jackson's funeral service because it would not stop swearing
PK7O TIL Landmines planted on the coasts during the Falklands War accidentally created penguin sanctuaries. The penguins are too light to detonate the mines, so they live and breed safely. The sanctuaries are so popular and profitable that there are efforts to prevent removal of the mines.
Bg66x TIL that the coordinates Walter White hid on lotto ticket (N 34, 59′, 20″, W 106, 36′, 52), point straight to Q studios in Albuquerque, where Breaking Bad was filmed.
epyLD TIL that Nabokov saw each letter as a color. It's called grapheme-color synesthesia