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TIL UPS trademarked the colour brown

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woxaP TIL Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln, was saved from a train accident by Edwin Booth, the brother of John Wilkes Booth.
Ovx1 TIL that during the Battle of Moscow, despite German forces closing to within 50 kilometers of the city, the Soviet Union still held the annual military parade marking the revolution. Soviet troops who paraded past the Kremlin, then marched directly to the front line and into battle.
lPlB TIL that a University of Montreal study on the porn-viewing habits of men was cancelled when the researcher was unable to find any men who had never watched porn.
0D1L TIL that in 1994, the Surgeon General of the United States was fired for saying masturbation is “part of human sexuality, and perhaps should be taught.”
wo5po Today I learned that the largest snowman ever built was in Maine in 2008 and measured 122 feet, 7 inches tall.