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TIL Liverpool is (STILL) the best team of the world!

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XEvvk Today I learned that the first competitive motor race was held in 1894 and was over a distance of 126km from the French cities of Paris to Rouen
M7Rw8 TIL that English law when discussing trademark infringement uses the "moron in a hurry" standard. It was famously used in Apple Corp. v. Apple Computer, where it was ruled even a moron in a hurry wouldn't confuse the Beatles' label with Apple Computer.
aw5EL TIL That the Government of Argentina secretly forced McDonalds to lower the price of the Big Mac after The Economist used the Big Max Index, an informal measure of Purchasing Power Parity, to show the government had falsified data.
9wkkG TIL that nowhere in any dialog written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle does Sherlock Holmes ever utter the phrase “Elementary, my dear Watson”
Y9lB TIL Amazon owns the patent for purchasing things with a single mouse click