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TIL there is one living person who uses an iron lung

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oB0nA TIL of the cyber sitcom starring Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry to accompany the Windows 95 launch
nQEW TIL the original Baby Ruth candy company claimed the bar wasn’t named after Babe Ruth so they could avoid paying him royalties. They later shut down a rival candy bar that was actually approved by Ruth to use his name on the grounds the names were too similar.
e0JxD TIL that the mousetrap is the "most frequently invented device in American history". The American Patent and Trademark Office has issued a total 4400 mousetrap patents, and 400 applications are still made yearly. Only 20 of these inventions have been commercially successful.
VaLm TIL of the Golden Arches Theory which states that no two countries that both had McDonald’s had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald’s.
QJLDM TIL, while a 20 year old Rod Serling was serving in WWII, he saw his best friend killed by a falling crate of food. Seeing the unpredictability and irony of life and death, he would later use that experience to create, 'The Twilight Zone'.