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TIL that Mattel unsuccessfully sued the record label of the band Aqua, alleging their song "Barbie Girl" infringed upon the toy manufacturers trademark and damaged its image.

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W7eYd TIL during a 2020 pre-game news conference, soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo moved two bottle of Coca-Cola from his desk and said "drink water" in Portuguese. Coca-Cola temporarily lost $4 billion in market value.
QN7VL TIL Cool Whip contains Sorbitan Monostearate, a synthetic wax that is sometimes used as a hemorrhoid cream but also one of the magical substances that keep Cool Whip from turning to liquid over time in the fridge
wabY TIL that you legally can’t die in the Palace of Westminster if you’re a commoner. Your death is recorded as having taken place at St Thomas’s Hospital.
R7mk1 TIL the days of the week come from the Norse names for the 7 Ptolemaic planets: Sun's day, Moon's day, Tiw's day, Woden's day, Thor's day, Freya's day, and Saturn's day
GJEJ TIL of 286 scholarly investigations: 221 empirical studies and 65 reviews and/or analyses, that demonstrate women are as physically aggressive, or more, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners. The aggregate sample size in the reviewed studies exceeds 371,600.