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TIL there are only 15 trademarked scents in the U.S., Play-Doh being one of them.

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e0mxE TIL that there is a pre-wedding tradition in Germany where guests throw porcelain on the ground and break them to bring luck to the couple. To symbolise working together through future difficulties, the couple must clean everything up
jNjZp TIL that Sony’s PlayStation was developed to be an add-on CD-ROM unit to the Super Nintendo. Instead, Sony decided to compete against Nintendo after the latter announced a partnership with Philips on the CD drive one day before the SNES-Play Station was supposed to be announced by Sony.
Mp8m TIL that the USA and Russia have islands that are just 2.5 miles apart, and the water between them freezes over in the winter. So technically you can walk from the USA to Russia.
GYmBE TIL about the Giant Golden-Crown Flying Fox. It is one of the largest bats in the world with a wingspan up to 5.6 feet.
E15v7 TIL that United States Army had a tactical deception unit called "Ghost Army" during the WW2, it consisted of 1100 soldiers, their job was to deceive the enemy by inflatable tanks, sound trucks, and fake radio transmissions.