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TIL "Adidas" comes from the name of its founder, Adolf "Adi" Dassler, who was a Nazi.

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kJAZ7 TIL that the Yugoslav version of NORAD is abandoned in Croatia
VM0M0 TIL in the early 1900’s, King Edward VII of Wales was too fat to button the bottom button on his suit. Out of respect all his subjects did the same, and the tradition of never using the bottom button remains to this day.
kObbE TIL of Kenneth Parks. In 1987 he drove 20 kms from his house to his In Laws' in Scarborough Toronto. He stabbed both of them killing his mother & badly injuring his father in law. He was acquitted of the murder charges because he was a Sleepwalker.
kOoyd TIL Hiroaki Aoki moved to NYC from Japan where he would work 7 days a week in an ice cream truck he rented in Harlem. Using the $10,000 he saved from the business, he convinced his father to invest in a four-table teppanyaki restaurant which would be named "Benihana" after the red Safflower.
nE5B TIL When the leading emergency asthma medication Albuterol’s patent expired, the patent holding pharmaceutical companies lobbied to have their own inhalers banned based on environmental issues, allowing them to file a new patent, and continue to monopolize the market.