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TIL Cleveland kidnapping victim Amanda Berry, held for almost 10 years and freed in 2013, has a TV segment on the Cleveland news dedicated to finding missing people.

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xNAD TIL McDonald’s almost got rid of its golden arches in the 1960’s. The arches were only kept because a psychologist they hired said they had great Freudian importance in the subconscious mind of customers. They represented “mother McDonald’s breasts.”
vP1J7 TIL that DC Comics sued the sneaker company DC Shoes because of their similar logo. However it turned out that DC Comics hadn't trademarked their logo properly, so they lost the case and had to pay the shoe company every year to use their own logo.
rRp94 TIL of the Noonday Gun - a daily tradition, that has its roots in the grand ambitions and megalomania of the first Tai-pans of the Jardines-Matheson company
X0vmQ TIL That .tv is the Internet TLD for Tuvalu which grosses the government of Tuvalu 8.4% of their revenue with GoDaddy signing a 10-year contract in December of 2021 to manage the domains registrations.
95Er TIL The end of slavery led to starvation and death for millions of black Americans