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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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QJeD6 TIL One of the attractions of the port city Liepaja( Latvia ) is a night in jail. The haunting Karosta district offers accommodation in the old military lockup complete with Soviet-style treatment.
VM5ym TIL about the Mandela Effect, in which large groups of people share a misinterpretted memory.
aJ9Z TIL Baylor University has 2 live black bears that live on campus and used to go to football games. The school stopped taking them there only after the USDA banned them from doing so.
YGe7 TIL when Gangnam Style surpassed ~2.15 billion views on Youtube, the View Counter went negative, causing Youtube to release a statement saying “We never thought a video would be watched in numbers greater than a 32-bit integer (=2,147,483,647 views), but that was before we met PSY.”
Mel0A TIL that in 2015 a German student used his countries FOIA to request the answers to an upcoming final exam.