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TIL Sears was sued for stealing an invention when they suddenly stopped ordering it… and released their own Craftsmen version

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nepAo TIL Mohandas Gandhi is one of the strongest symbols of non-violence in the 20th century. It is widely held – in retrospect – that the Indian national leader should have been the very man to be selected for the Nobel Peace Prize. He was nominated several times, but was never awarded the prize.
8eEdZ TIL that the Bronx has 'the' in front of it because it's named for the Bronx river and was originally "the Borough of The Bronx [River]"
4XEkX TIL J.D. Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye, served in WW2 and landed on D-Day while carrying the first six chapters of the book with him. At the end of the war he checked himself into a mental institution. When he got out, he signed back up and participated in the denazification of Germany.
m1KjY TIL Good Will Hunting was only able to film on location at Harvard after alumnus John Lithgow intervened. Harvard had initially denied the movie access to film on its campus. However, Lithgow asked the movie's location manager what he wanted and then made a phone call which ultimately delivered it.
lo8M5 TIL the bearded vulture feeds almost exclusively on bone. Bones that are too large to eat have to be dropped from the sky and shattered against rock. The process can take years to master and practiced individuals will often use one favored dropping site known as an ossuary.