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TIL the nation of Iceland sued a company named Iceland to have all its trademarks invalidated. And won.

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PoAZ TIL In the original script of Time Bandits, King Agamemnon was introduced as: “The warrior took off his helmet, revealing someone that looks exactly like Sean Connery, or an actor of equal but cheaper stature.”. Sean Connery ended up doing the film.
rRMNo TIL formations called "the Devil's Corkscrew" were first found around Harrison, Nebraska, in 1891, and were once thought to be extinct forms of sea sponges, but it turns out they are actually fossilized dens of an extinct type of beaver called Palaeocastor.
A5Ex TIL of Timothy Tyler who is serving life in prison without parole for mailing 5.2 grams of LSD to a friend.
KYybB TIL there is another Great Wall in Asia located in northern Iran east of the Caspian Sea. Called the "Great Wall of Gorgan" It stretches for 195km(121m) long. 6-10m(20-33ft) wide. There are over 30 forts between 10-50km(6-31m) apart. It is made of fired mud-bricks and has a distinct red color.
K5jJ TIL President Andrew Jackson had to leave for a hotel when roughly 20,000 citizens celebrated his inauguration inside the White House. His aides ultimately had to lure the mob outside with washtubs filled with a potent cocktail of orange juice and whiskey.