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TIL Cheerios were introduced by General Mills in 1941 as "Cheerioats" but changed to "Cheerios" due to a trademark dispute with Quaker Oats

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l7e87 TIL that the original "Diddy" sued Sean Combs over the name in 2006—and won!
D1b0J TIL of Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates: born in South Carolina the black son of a sharecropper in 1907, he danced on the street for coins as a child, lost his leg at 12, taught himself to tap-dance afterwards, was competing in talent shows by 15, on Broadway by 20 and performing for royalty by 30.
61El TIL Romania had the unusual distinction of being at war with both the Allied and Axis powers simultaneously in August-September of 1944.
j667p TIL about Deafula (1975), the first ever film performed entirely in American Sign Language. It was released with no audio track in the original release, but later releases include a dub for hearing audiences.
e0WDD TIL Ironbridge, a town in England, takes its name from an iron bridge named The Iron Bridge.