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TIL Hershey trademarked the color orange.

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nPPG TIL of the term champagne socialist, which is a term used to describe self-described socialists who lead upper middle class lifestyles incompatible with their political convictions
vPZ04 TIL that the longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years. His name was Charles Osborne and he began hiccuping in 1922 and didn't stop until 1990. He had 20 to 40 hiccups per minute
oBR0o TIL a defendant in the UK called a judge a "bit of a cunt" and the judge replied with "you're a bit of a cunt yourself"
VBmWD TIL that "For EV fires, it's been always very difficult to pinpoint the exact root cause of the fire, because it is extremely difficult to 're-enact' the fire incident with the same conditions,"also; authorities, car makers and battery makers often do not disclose what the exact safety risk is
OGen4 TIL that Hitler accused Czechoslovakia of committing genocide against ethnic Germans, prior to annexing and invading the country.