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TIL Ohio State University trademarked the word “the”

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gMXD4 TIL that a meta-analysis shows that Vitamin D supplementation significantly helps with depression
ND4M TIL that in 2007, a 75 year old woman smashed up a Comcast office with a hammer because she was fed up with their poor customer service
b9OPp TIL "Roses are red/Violets are blue" dates back to 1590 with the lines: "In a fresh fountaine, farre from all mens vew//She bath'd her brest, the boyling heat t'allay;// She bath'd with roses red, and violets blew,// And all the sweetest flowres, that in the forrest grew."
WkJoN TIL of the Peshtigo Fire a forest fire so hot it spawned fire tornadoes (fire whirls), and people that jumped in wells to escape the blaze were boiled alive.
D1oQv TIL in 2017, in Scotland, two students entered an art gallery and, finding an empty table, placed a pineapple there to see if people would take it for art. When they returned 4 days later, the pineapple was covered with a glass protection.