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TIL that the Burger King chain is not allowed to use the name Burger King in Mattoon, Illinois, because there is a restaurant there that already protected the name as a “state trademark” in 1959 and defended it in court against BK.

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6EDPJ TIL Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 partly because of the trade embargoes on both oil and scrap metal. This ultimately interfered with Japan's expansion into China.
m1kAP TIL about Riley Horner, an Illinois teenager who was accidentally kicked in the head. As a result of the injury, her memory resets every two hours, and she wakes up thinking every day is June 11.
jNQ4N TIL US cities are losing 36 million trees a year
Y7yQd TIL that an aircraft like the Boeing 747 burns approximately 4L (0.9 gallons) of fuel every single second while in flight.
E1MRw TIL that the "Battle of the Little Bighorn" actually took place along the Little Horn River—its junction with the Big Horn was several miles away—so the term for the battle has always been a misnomer.