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TIL Dr. Phil is NO longer licensed to practice psychology in the US. He had ethics charges for an inappropriate relationship with a patient (1989), a criminal complaint for practicing psychology without a license (California), and violated doctor-patient confidentiality with Britney Spears (2008).

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8a8VK TIL the modern drinking straw was developed to prevent tainting the flavor of a mint julip which happened when using a grass straw
Wvm8 TIL companies such as Google, Lego and Xerox regularly work to avoid the risk of their trademarked names becoming genericized, because if those terms become fully generalized terms for ‘internet search’, 'interconnecting plastic block’ or 'photocopy’, then they could lose those trademarks.
YpgW TIL: Skateboarding is becoming popular in Afghanistan - especially amongst women
yx0v TIL that an engineer at NASA spent fifteen years trying to become an astronaut, being rejected fourteen times before finally being selected in 1998.
b4G0 TIL: in 1998 Microsofts “DirectX” team pitched a new gaming console known as the “directXbox”. Later shortened to “Xbox”.