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TIL UPS trademarked the colour brown

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5YvDD TIL Before Edward I was king of England, he was a prisoner of Simon de Montfort. One day, he asked if he could ride the guards horses and raced them one by one. When he got to the last horse, he rode off to freedom, and all the other horses were too tired to give chase.
WGwX TIL redheads are called “rangas” in Australia, ranga being short for “orangutang”.
LkrN0 TIL the hottest known substance in the universe is actually created on Earth at the Large Hadron Collider. When gold particles are smashed together, for a split second temperatures can reach up to 7.2 trillion degrees Fahrenheit, which is hotter than a supernova.
rNRa0 TIL Pepperoni is sold raw but is consumable with no cooking due to the curing and fermentation
oRvX8 TIL Apple created a custom mouse colloquially nicknamed 'the hockey puck', that lasted for only two years, 1998-2000, before it was discontinued in favor of a more traditional shape. It is considered one of Apple's more notorious flops.