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TIL that Disney attempted to trademark "Día de los Muertos" in 2013.

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rRwr1 TIL About Mike Cameron, a kid in 1998 who got suspended for wearing a Pepsi shirt on Coke Day.
Vorp TIL washoe the chimp (the first non-human taught sign language) became self-aware while staring into a mirror and then interacting with other chimps that she was not human
LnEp TIL about a match between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal where they played on a court which had clay surface on one side and grass on the other. At that time, Federer was undefeated on grass courts for 5 years and Nadal was undefeated on clay for 3 years.
LO79 TIL Oxford University is requesting the help of the general public to help and decipher 7 ancient languages.
Zp5aa TIL Squashing doesn't prevent ants in the house. Ants come and collect the squashed ants if you leave them there and they get a free meal. Ants will rarely have five per cent of the colony outside of the colony at any time