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TIL that the US Olympics committee owns the Olympics trademark and bans any US businesses from using the word Olympic in their name unless they are located in Washington State.

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Z87Wa TIL When Simon and Garfunkel were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Art Garfunkel thanked Paul Simon for enriching his life and Simon said, “Arthur and I agree about almost nothing. But it’s true, I have enriched his life quite a bit.” After three songs, the duo left without speaking.
W7LMX TIL the Heinz factory in Wigan produces up to 3 million tins of baked beans a day
8aPoG TIL - The "Thagomizer", the spiked tail on a stegosaurid dinosaur, didn't have an official name till the cartoonist Gary Larson did a comic about it, named it, and the scientific community just accepted it and started using it too.
x7nw TIL Kinder Morgan believes oil spills are good for the economy because it creates jobs to clean it up.
OobPY TIL that nearly every U.S. state with an official state dance selected the Square Dance. I always thought it was just a Texas thing...