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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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XQMk TIL in 1941 Harry Truman said “If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible.”