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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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E1YyX TIL in 1945, a man survived the atomic blast in Hiroshima, dragged himself to an air raid shelter, spent the night there, and caught the morning train to arrive at his job – in Nagasaki – where he survived yet another nuclear blast
ZW5p TIL that if batteries had advanced at the same pace as computer processors, a double a cell would contain more energy than a tactical nuke!
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gr10X TIL when Pat Riley became the Head Coach of the Miami Heat in 1995, his contract didn't allow him to bring his own video coordinator which spared the job of the existing one. That video coordinator was Erik Spoelstra and in 2008 Spoelstra became Riley's successor as the head coach of the Heat.